Church Of St Andrew

SU 13 SE LAVERSTOCK CHURCH ROAD (west side)

2/102 Church of St. Andrew

GV II

Anglican parish church. 1858 by T. H. Wyatt. Knapped flint with ashlar quoins, plain and fish-scale tiled roof with coped verges saddlestones and cross finials. Consists of nave, south aisle, chancel, south chapel, south porch and attached church room at west end, bellcote at west gable. Gothic-style. Gabled south porch has Romanesque door with chevron moulding, incorporating some original stone, and attached shafts; angle buttresses and three cusped lancets to west side. Inner door has pointed arch with hoodmould and foliated terminals, door leading to south aisle is similar. South side aisle has 2-light window with plate tracery and hoodmould to left of porch and to right are pair of cusped lancets either side of central 2-light window with plate tracery and hoodmould with foliated terminals, gable over. Clerestory has 4 cinquefoils. South chapel has shouldered doorway, blocked from inside, and cusped lancet to right. East window of chapel is group of three cusped lancets, continuous string course at east end of church. Chancel has 2-light plate tracery window with hoodmould on south side, 3-light plate tracery window with hoodmould and carved head terminals to east end and three cusped lancets to north side. North side nave has one 3-light plate tracery window and two 2-light plate tracery windows. West window is 4-light geometric decorated-style. Attached to west end and enlarged in C20 is flat-roofed church room and vestry with two 3-light C16- style square-headed windows to west side. Interior: 5-bay nave has plain painted walls, arch-braced collar truss roof on stone corbels with decorative painting on roof. Pointed arcade of 3 double-chamfered arches to south aisle; lean- to roof. South chapel through pointed east arch; braced-collar rafter roof. Chancel has scissor-rafter roof, double chamfered pointed chancel arch, pointed arch to south chapel and door with hoodmould and foliated terminals. Fittings: all original Victorian furnishings. West window and other windows have re-used C13 grisaille glass from Salisbury Cathedral, found in the city ditch in 1933. Chancel windows re-use C18 and early C19 stained glass, north side chancel are good late C19 stained glass windows to Greenly family. Wall tablets in south porch of C18 and early C19, including one with fine lettering to Peter Bathurst of Clarendon Park, died 1718. In the west end of the churchyard are some fragmentary remains of a Medieval church. (N. Pevsner, Buildings of England: Wiltshire, 1975.)

Listing NGR: SU1593930903