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St Andrew

Upper Castle Combe

Wiltshire

Anglican parish church, mostly C15 but with C13 work in chancel and C14 in north-east chapel

Architectural Features

Restored c1850-1. Rubble stone and ashlar with stone tile roofs

3-bay nave and aisles, 2- light clerestory windows with hoods, long 3-light flat-headed aisle windows, carved stops to hoods, battlements, buttresses and east end pinnacles to aisles

Chancel with C15 3-light south window and late C13 4 trefoil-head lancets with quatrefoil over to east end

North-east chapel has 3- light C14 flowing traceried east window and 2-light C15 flat-headed north window

Interior: Fan-vaulted tower with tall tower arch and C15 door to stair turret

Slim nave piers, 4 shafts, 4 hollows in section, with fine carved foliage and figure capitals

Carved head corbels to nave and aisles carrying roofs apparently Cl9 but possibly with reused bosses to aisles and timbers to nave arched braced collar roof

Exceptional carved chancel arch with 3 statuettes under canopies to each arch and plant stem carving to flanking moulding

7-bay C13 east wall arcade

trefoil heads and carved spandrels

Chancel fittings c1851 including floor tiles with Scrope arms, family pew, east window by Ward & Nixon and south window by Gibbs

South-east chapel has organ and Scrope armorial glass to east window

North-east chapel has C15 oak screen

fine c1300 effigy of Knight and 1851 Gothic canopied monument to Scrope family

Scrope armorial glass to east window by Ward & Nixon and to north window

Nave C15 wood pulpit and remarkable stone font

octagonal bowl with book-rest on quatrefoil base with openwork carved piers

Aisle and south-east chapel east windows have c1851 patterned quarry glass with coloured borders

Various C18 and C19 wall monuments in aisles and tower notably to W. Fisher 1764 in south aisle and 2 earlier C18 pedimented monuments under tower

Photo coming soon