Church Of St Andrew

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ST 72 SE 2/170 16.8.60

TODBER Church of St Andrew

(Formerly listed as Church of Unknown Dedication)

II

Parish church, C15 origin but almost entirely rebuilt 1879. 1879 work for Elizabeth Marchioness of Westminster. Squared, coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. Tiled, gable-ended roofs, with stone copings. Plan: nave, chancel, south tower, north vestry. Largely Perpendicular in style. South tower: 2 stage of medieval origin; weathered string course; diagonal buttresses to first stage; saddleback roof; rectangular bell openings; chamfered, 2-centred door. Mainly square headed, Perpendicular tracery windows of 2 and 3 lights, that to north chancel wall of C15 origin. North nave and vestry have some paired lancets. 3-light east window with Perpendicular tracery under a 2-centred head. 2-centred head vestry door. Octagonal ashlar stack to coping between nave and chancel. Interior features: 2- centred chancel arch of 2 chamfered orders and continuous jambs; C15 reset trefoiled piscina; restored C17 panelled pulpit, sounding- board reset as reredos; arch braced, collar-truss nave roof supported on corbels; boarded, barrel-vault chancel roof; turned communion rails; octagonal recut C15 font on moulded base; trefoiled head vestry fireplace; some early glass. RCHM, Dorset, vol IV, p 114, no 1. Newman J and Pevsner N, The Buildings of England: Dorset, Penguin, 1972, p 423/4.

Listing NGR: ST7998020048