Church Of St Andrew is a Grade II* listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 January 1958. A Medieval Church. 1 related planning application.
Church Of St Andrew
- WRENN ID
- scattered-chapel-dawn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 January 1958
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Andrew is a former parish church, now under the care of the Friends of Friendless Churches. The core of the building dates to the 13th century with a south arcade, while the west tower is from the 14th to 15th centuries, and the chancel from the 14th century. A significant portion of the fabric was rebuilt between 1856 and 1859. The church is constructed from coursed limestone rubble with limestone dressings, and has plain tiled roofs.
The plan consists of a west tower, a nave with north and south aisles, and a chancel. The west tower is embattled with three stages and later, four-stage diagonal buttressing. It features a restored west doorway with a pointed arch, and a west window with ogee tracery within a two-centred arch. The upper stages have a lancet window and a two-light opening with a trefoil-headed arch in a two-centred arch with a label. The nave has a 15th-century clerestory of four windows on each side, each with two trefoil lights in a square head. The south aisle has three 19th-century windows with two trefoil lights and ogee tracery in a square head, with labels having mask stops. A gabled, 19th-century south porch incorporates a niche with a stone sculpture of St Andrew. The chancel's south wall has two 14th-century windows, each with two trefoil lights and ogee tracery in a square head with a label. A 19th-century east window has three graduated trefoil lights in a two-centred arch. The north wall retains a 13th-century window of two lights with Y tracery.
Inside, the south nave arcade has four bays, with arches of one unmoulded order and one chamfered order on round columns with moulded capitals and bases; one column is octagonal. The north arcade, from the early 16th century, also has four bays, with two-centred arches of one continuous chamfered outer order alongside an inner, also chamfered, order supported by half-octagonal attached shafts. The responds have piers with embattlement and blank shields of arms on the capitals. Much of the inner wall material is 19th-century brick, plastered. The chancel arch is two-centred with two chamfered orders, the inner order on a corbel; however, medieval stone is visible on either side of the arch. A 19th-century tiled floor extends to the chancel and sanctuary. Two early to mid-19th-century wall monuments are located in the chancel, commemorating members of the Hussey family. The font is Victorian, in a 15th-century style. Several 12th-century tomb slabs are set against the west wall of the nave.
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