St Andrew'S Church

TL 85 NW BROCKLEY HAWK'S LANE

4/39 St. Andrew's Church (Formerly listed as Church 14.7.55 of St.Andrew)

II*

Church, mediaeval, altered 1866. Nave, chancel, west tower, south porch, north vestry. Flint and septaria rubble, partially rendered; limestone dressings. Slated roofs with parapet gables. Some early C14 features including, in the chancel:- 2 2-light south windows with curvilinear tracery, 3-light east window, double piscina with separate arches. In the south nave wall an ogee-headed tomb-canopy, probably of Alexander de Walsham (died c.1338), of Brockley Hall. Later C14 alterations include:- 2-light windows and south doorways to nave and chancel; nave entrance door, oak battened and boarded with iron knocker and escutcheon; chancel arch with pilasters having moulded capital and base and pair of flanking image pedestals; steps up to rood-loft formed with dropped window cill having inset piscina bowl. Tower added to west and late C15; crenellated parapets, 2-light belfry openings, diagonal buttresses, frieze at plinth level, with flushwork tracery and the name Ricardus Copping on the south side, 3-light west window with tracery, tall tower arch with pilasters. South porch added C15; timber-framed with arched doorway and diamond mullioned side-lights, flint and ashlar plinth (repaired in red brick), gabled slated roof with simple crown posts. Extensive alterations of 1866, including: removal of narrow tower between nave and chancel (evidence visible in south wall); replacement of chancel roof by a 7-canted roof, boarded with ribs and bosses; removal of nave roof and replacement with scissor-braced coupled rafter roof; construction of new vestry against north wall; oak poppy-head pews and choir-stalls, some reusing C16 poppy-heads and benchends; altar reredos in 7 oak-framed panels with figure paintings; windows in the north wall inserted or, perhaps, unblocked and restored. For details and engravings of the church before alterations, see John Gage, History of Thingoe Hundred, 1838.

Listing NGR: TL8273655553