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St Andrew

St Andrew

West Coker

Somerset

C13 et seq., minimal C19/C20 restoration.

Architectural Features

3-light C14 style traceried window without label

3-light C15 traceried windows in hollow-chamfer recesses with square-stop labels.

in south wall a 2-light flat arch cusped window without label, possibly late C13, and matching window in north wall

west window 3-light C15 traceried, with square-stop label, and above the bell-cote, much copied: added c1553-56, square on plan, moulded corbel base all sides, cuboid unit over with 2 plain pointed arches each face, pyramidal stone slate roof with cross finial and corner finials, containing 2 bells.

C15 4-centred arch into north-east chapel, no arch into nave but stone screen, earlier C15 with wide centre arch and 4 small arches each side, Dorset pattern with carved spandrils each side, cornice with bosses to west, hinge pins for central doors, stone seats both sides.

C15 moulded rib and panel ceiling with bosses

2 canopied statue niches in east wall and C15 piscina in south-east corner

Many fittings C19, but altar-rail has turned C17 wood balusters

pulpit early C17 octagonal panelled, in timber

north transept font early C14, octagonal with corner shafts and cinquefoil cusped panels of early detail

lectern probably C18, with barley-sugar twist balusters, to lower half and 4 to upper, carrying bookrest

C17 chest in south transept.

Fine canopied tomb between chancel and chapel, 4 columns, open tomb- chest with scattered bones, commemorates John Sydenhan died 1626

a lady, cl325 with trefoil-cusped canopy and priest, died 1348-49, with septfoil cusped canopy, and in spandrils scenes of the Annunciation and the Adoration of the Magi

many wall plaques and brasses.

Four brass chandeliers, probably C18 Dutch.

Fragments of medieval glass in several windows, notably west nave and chapel windows,