Church Of St Andrew

LITTLE BARNINGHAM TG 13 SW 7/56 Church of St. Andrew 4.10.60 II*

Parish church. Medieval. Heavily restored: chancel 1878/79, nave and porch 1895/96. Rendered flint and iron conglomerate, plain tile roof with fish scale bands. West tower, nave, chancel, south porch, C19 north vestry. Tower in 3 stages: galletted knapped flint with stone dressings: embattled parapet with gargoyle; string course above and below bell stage; 3-stepped diagonal buttresses with wide C15 stone plinth; bell openings and west window, renewed 1895, of 2-cusped lights under an octofoil; part of low segmental or 4-centred arch in brick to north. South porch restored 1896; chamfered arch with roll mouldings under a hood mould, shafts lost; a cinquefoil headed light, probably C15, each side; south doorway renewed, chamfered jambs, double hollow chamfered arch under hood mould with figure stops, that to right hand side renewed. North doorway boarded over. Nave windows enlarged and renewed: south side one 3-light and one 2-light, north side one 2-light, all with panel tracery under square heads. 2 stepped side buttresses with flushwork. Chancel: knapped flint on older base; small central door; 2 C19 2-light windows; diagonal buttresses of pebble flint, C19; east gable of knapped flint; east window of 3 ogee headed lights with panel tracery. Interior: nave roof of 1895, scissor braced, very large castellated tie beams and wall plates; chancel roof of 1879 has arch braced collars; chancel arch continuous double chamfer. Slender polygonal shafts and moulded jambs to double chamfered tower arch. Plain stoup recess by south door; plain octagonal font on fat octagonal stem, C15. Medieval glass fragments in west window. Narrow ledged and battened door to tower stair. Poppy head bench ends, one incorporating a lady's head, c1470, cut down and affixed to C19 pews. One box pew, dated 1640, enlarged 1867, has cockshead hinges, premonitary inscription and finial to corner post in the form of a carved upright shrouded skeleton holding an hour glass and scythe.

Listing NGR: TG1417433322