Church Of St Andrew

In the following entry:-

TQ 04 SW 5/42

BRAMLEY HORSHAM ROAD Grafham Church of St Andrew

GV II

The grade shall be amended to read:-

GV II*

TQ 04 SW 5/42

BRAMLEY C.P. HORSHAM ROAD Grafham Church of St Andrew

GV II

Church. 1861-4 by Henry Woodyer at his own cost. Coursed sandstone blocks with red brick angle quoins and moulded brick eaves, timber framed porch. Plain tiled roofs with stone ashlar drum to west end crowned by wood shingled spire. Nave with apsidal chancel to the east, porch to south, vestry to north of chancel and spire to west. Brick dressed plinth and sill band with brick tumbling work on buttresses. Paired lancets and roundel fenestration, the chancel windows breaking up through the eaves on the apse and alternating with inscribed roundel panels. Main doors to west in chamfered and splayed three-step stone surround with Celtic style strapwork hinges. Brick sill band rising up over the door to form a gable moulding and enclosing an arched niche with a statue of St. Andrew. Trefoil head lancet window above conical spire with small gablet in each face to gable apex on west end. Two openings in the drum below. Porch to south with turned baluster posts and trefoil head arcades on stone plinth walls. Double wooden doors. Interior:- Whitewashed, although originally stencilled. Alabaster reredos and triple sedilia on south wall of chancel with carvings of Woodyer, his wife and daughter. Stone and alabaster font. Triple arched billeted screen on round columns with half column responds. Moulded capitals with palm leaf decoration. Woodyer is buried under the churchyard cross to the south of the church.

PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p.261.

Listing NGR: TQ0229641656