Church Of St Andrew

ASHBURTON

SX7569 WEST STREET 849-1/10/210 (South side) 07/08/51 Church of St Andrew

GV I

Parish church. Early or mid C15 (tower before 1449); restored by G E Street 1882-3. Stone rubble with granite dressings; windows in limestone, possibly Bath stone. Slated roof. Chancel, N and S chancel chapels, N and S transepts, nave, four bay N and S aisles, N porch, W tower. Vestry E of chancel; lobby and choristers' room to S. Perpendicular traceried windows, much restored in C19. Setback buttresses. Battlemented parapets. 5 sided stair turret at W end of each aisle. Doorway to porch has pointed, double-chamfered arch springing from rounded half-columns. West tower (the finest feature) about 21 m high, rises in 3 stages with setback buttresses diminishing in thickness at each stage. 5 sided stair turret on N face. Heavily moulded W door (restored) with 3 much restored niches above containing C19 figures. Battlemented parapets with pinnacles. Vestry has 2-light C19 E window surrounded by late C18 and early C19 memorials to the Winsor family. Interior: chancel and nave have arcades of octagonal granite columns supporting double-chamfered pointed granite arches; columns have hollowed faces to the shafts, moulded limestone (Beer stone?) capitals. Trefoil-headed piscinas in chancel chapels and transepts. Wagon roofs over chancel, nave, and transepts. Cambered aisle and chancel-chapel roofs with intersecting beams and carved bosses; beams moulded on S side, carved on N side. One of the bosses is said to carry the letter L for Bishop Lacey (1420-56). Two fine C18 brass candelabras in nave. Oak reredos 1928 by Herbert Read. Chancel screen 1884. Pulpit by Harry Hems of Exeter, late C19 or early C20. Marble font, 1840. In N transept a painting of the crucifixion by Legassick, a Devon artist; part of former reredos. (The Buildings of England: Cherry B: Devon (2nd edition): London: 1989-: 131-2).

Listing NGR: SX7552769759