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St Andrew

St Andrew

Minterne Magna

Dorset

Chancel and nave early C15, north chapel 1610-20, west tower 1800 and 1894, general restoration 1894.

Architectural Features

windows separated by Cl9 2-stage buttresses with carved gabled tops

central C19, 4-centred perpendicular, 3-light window flanked by similar 2-light C15 windows under 2-centred heads.

C19 scissor-braced roofs with cusping to nave and chancel springing from carved corbels

C19 chapel roof with arch-braced cambered collar springing from wall-plate with carved leaves

seating with carved bench ends of 1897

C19 octagonal pulpit

C15 octagonal font with quatrefoils containing carving on modern base

various C17, C18, C19 and C20 monuments notably to the Napiers in the chapel with broken pediment on Corinthian columns flanked by weepers by Robert Taylor senior early C18 and to Charles Churchill 1714 in the nave with massed trophies of arms

some C15 glass in nave.