Parish Church Of St Andrew

WEST CHELBOROUGH WEST CHELBOROUGH ST 50 NW HAMLET Parish Church of 1/135 St Andrew 11.11.66 I GV Parish Church. Chancel and nave rebuilt C15, when nave extended to west. South tower added in 1638. Restored in early C19, and in 1894 when north vestry added. Rubble-stone walls and dressings. Stone slate roofs with stone gable-copings and crosses at apices. Chancel: 3-light east window with roundel in head, C19. North and south walls have 2-light windows with quatrefoil in head under pointed arches. Nave: north wall, early C15 window of two trefoiled lights with vertical tracery in a 2-centred head with moulded reveals. South wall has a C15 window, altered in the C17, of two pointed lights with tracery in a 2-centred head. C15 south doorway has chamfered jambs and rebuilt pointed head. South tower, of 2 stages with a plain parapet and pinnacles. Ground stage forms a porch and has a doorway with ovolo and hollow-chamfered jambs and an elliptical head. Bell chamber has one loop light in the south wall, and two in the west wall. Panel on south parapet with inscription: "William Lardar Esq. Thomas Horsford Warden 1638." Interior: pointed chancel-arch with moulded jambs, C15. C19 roofs, arch- braced with high collars. Fittings: Font, stone tapering cylindrical bowl with 5 bands of ornaments conventional leaves, cable, diaper, zigzag, small dog-tooth, mid C12. Wall-monument, freestone recess and effigy, round-arched with enriched mouldings and strapwork soffit, spandrels with shields-of-arms, cornice with damaged female figures. Effigy of woman in bed with infant at her side. To a member of the Kymer family, early C17. Wall monument of 1716. Communion rails, C18. (RCHM Dorset I, p.91(1))

Listing NGR: ST5416605447