Sandys Mausoleum About 75 Yards South-West Of The Church Of St Andrew

SO 8463 OMBERSLEY CP WORCESTER ROAD (west side)

9/180 Sandys mausoleum about 75 yards south-west of the Church of St Andrew 29.12.52 GV II*

Part of old parish church, now mausoleum. Late C13 with c1830 alterations. Sandstone ashlar, gabled slate roof behind embattled parapet above a moulded cornice. Two bays, being the surviving end two bays of the former chancel. Early English style. Three buttresses with offsets to each side elevation and angled buttresses at east end; end buttresses have gabled pinnacles; continuous plinth with string course above. Side walls are C13 and have two cusped lancets in deeply moulded reveals with a hoodmould returning to continue as a string course. East and west ends are C19; east end has a blind ogee archway with poppyhead finial and flanking crocketted pinnacles; in the gable apex is a trefoiled opening. West end has a heavily moulded pointed arched doorway with hoodmould and plain label stops and a quatrefoil opening in the gable apex. Interior: roof structure renewed during mid-C20 Windows have rear arches on slender .colonnettes with moulded capitals and bases, hoodmoulds which return and continue as a string course and there is a second string course at sill level which, on the north side, rises as if above a square-headed tomb recess although the wall is flush beneath; on the south side this string course forms a hoodmould above the piscina and sedilia. Piscina has a cusped pointed arch and star-shaped basin; the three sedilia also have cusped pointed arches, slender colonnettes at each end with moulded capitals and bases and the central arch is supported on diminishing corbels, themselves resting upon carved human heads. C17 oak altar table with carved baluster legs and inscription around top rail; C19 brass altar rails. Sandys family wall memorials include at east end, to left an early C18 one with broken pediment, coat of arms on spiral columns with Corinthian capitals and an angel head corbel beneath; and on the right side a late C17 cartouche with grieving cherubs and a coat of arms above; on the north side is an early C18 memorial in form of a sarcophagus with a bust on top and coat of arms beneath, and, at the west end, is a mid-C18 memorial with a shouldered architrave, pediment containing the coat of arms and a swag beneath. There are three late C17 ledger slabs at the east end; also a hatchment on the east and west end walls. (VCH Vol III, pt 2; BoE).

Listing NGR: SO8441963483