Church Of St Andrew is a Grade I listed building in the Forest of Dean local planning authority area, England. A C13 Church.
Church Of St Andrew
- WRENN ID
- eastward-baluster-marsh
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Forest of Dean
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Andrew is an Anglican parish church with a basic layout dating back to the 13th century, featuring much of its original fabric. The 15th-century tower and various windows add to its historical significance. The church is constructed of squared or rubble sandstone, with the upper parts of the nave's south wall raised or rebuilt, and it has limestone dressings and tracery gable copings. The roof is covered with plain tiles.
The west tower is crenellated and consists of three stages, with diagonal buttresses on the west face and a square stair clamp on the northeast. The church has a long, low nave and a north aisle, both with steep roof pitches, as well as a two-storey south porch and a long chancel that sits slightly below the nave. The west door is moulded in a 13th-century style.
Inside, the nave and north aisle feature boarded barrel vault roofs from the 19th century, and there is a six-bay early English arcade with round columns and moulded round caps, along with high, simple bases. A new glazed and etched screen leads from the tower arch to the chancel arch on the left. The north aisle has a mix of three or four light flat arched perpendicular windows and single lancets, including a two-light 14th-century window on the west and a triple lancet with slender shaft responds on the east.
There is a simple late 13th-century tomb recess with cusping in the north wall. The south wall of the nave contains three two-light Tudor windows and a small two-light window at the eaves near the pulpit. The chancel features fine triple trefoiled lancets with dividing and respond ringed shafts in the east wall, two lancets with trefoil cusping in the north wall, and two two-light 14th-century windows in the south wall, along with a priests' door and tomb recess on the south side, and an aumbry on the north.
The chancel arch responds have a 19th-century roof with diagonal wind-bracing and foliated caps, including drilled decoration. Remains of a 15th-century oak screen and a visible rood stair can be found on the left. The interior also includes a good carved reredos from 1892, late 19th-century pitch-pine pews, an octagonal 15th-century font, and a late 19th-century pulpit and reading desk. The porch contains a 15th-century inner door and a lancet in the east wall, along with an additional door.
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