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St Andrew

St Andrew

Leigh

Dorset

The C15 tower is attached to the west end, with a square stair turret at the north-east corner.

Architectural Features

Diagonal buttresses, embattled parapet with corner pinnacles, and string course at base of parapet with carved gargoyles.

The west doorway below has a pointed arch and is set in a square frame with spandrel carvings of three hanks of cord, a merchant's mark and the letters TM.

To the east of the porch is a C15 two-light square-headed window with trefoiled lights

The north aisle has a moulded parapet and a moulded string course with carved gargoyles below.

The aisle has a C19 arch-braced collar beam roof with carved stone corbels.

The tower arch is C15 and has continuous mouldings with no caps.

PRINCIPAL FIXTURES: C13 plain, circular font with tapering bowl set on a C19 base.

and others with plain, square-headed ends, possibly C16.

Bench in the aisle has an elongated end with a carving of St Andrew and a poppy-head finial, reputedly from St Nicholas' Church, Hilfield.