Church Of St Andrew

SO 98 NW 726/6/10023

DUDLEY HIGHBRIDGE ROAD (West, off), Netherton Church of St Andrew II

Anglican church. 1827-30, by Thomas Lee, for the Church Commissioners. Gornal stone ashlar facing to brick structure. Slate roof. STYLE: Gothic style. PLAN: galleried nave with small apse and west tower; vestry added at east end in 1938. EXTERIOR: 7-bay nave with parapet, buttresses and tall pointed arch windows with hoodmoulds and pointed arch doorway with label below west window on north and south sides. 4-stage west tower with angle-buttresses with set-offs and tall pinnacles; embattled parapet, large bell-openings with Perpendicular tracery, clock faces with labels over and pointed arches to west window and doorway. Gabled apse at east end with pointed arch window with later Perpendicular tracery and low ashlar vestry of 1938. INTERIOR: ceiled and with galleries on three sides on thin iron columns. Original plain box-pews, but remainder of interior Gothicised later in C19. Furnishings include: late C19 choir stalls, alabaster reredos of 1883, wrought-iron screen of 1892, alabaster pulpit of 1903, font of 1879, brass eagle lectern of 1897 and the organ of 1835 by T H Harrison of Rochdale. (Sources: The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: Harmondsworth: 1974: 208; Colvin H: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840: New Haven and London: 1995: 606).

Listing NGR: SO9382088098