Church Of St Andrew is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1960. Church.
Church Of St Andrew
- WRENN ID
- half-bailey-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1960
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Andrew is a parish church with origins dating back to the 15th century, although it was almost entirely rebuilt in 1879 for Elizabeth, Marchioness of Westminster. The church is constructed from squared, coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and features tiled, gable-ended roofs with stone copings. Its layout includes a nave, chancel, south tower, and north vestry, and it is largely designed in the Perpendicular style.
The south tower, which has medieval origins, consists of two stages and features a weathered string course, diagonal buttresses on the first stage, a saddleback roof, rectangular bell openings, and a chamfered, two-centred door. The windows are mainly square-headed with Perpendicular tracery, comprising two and three lights, while the window on the north chancel wall is of 15th-century origin. The north nave and vestry include some paired lancets, and there is a three-light east window with Perpendicular tracery beneath a two-centred head. The vestry door also has a two-centred head. An octagonal ashlar stack is located at the coping between the nave and chancel.
Inside, notable features include a two-centred chancel arch with two chamfered orders and continuous jambs, a reset 15th-century trefoiled piscina, a restored 17th-century panelled pulpit with a sounding-board that has been reset as a reredos, and an arch-braced, collar-truss nave roof supported on corbels. The chancel roof is a boarded barrel vault, and there are turned communion rails and an octagonal recut 15th-century font on a moulded base. The vestry fireplace has a trefoiled head, and some early glass can also be found within the church.
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