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St Andrew

St Andrew

Chew Magna

Somerset

C12 origin, C14, money left in 1443 for north aisle

Architectural Features

in 1541 for tower, C17 alterations, vestry built 1824 by Reverend John Hall, C19 restoration and alterations.

Some Norman work around south doorway, Early English south arcade and north east respond of south chapel, otherwise Perpendicular style of different periods.

tower has plinth, string courses, weathered setback buttresses, cornice with fine gargoyles, pierced stone tracery parapet with crocketed pinnacles at corners, clock at 3rd stage south.

central bay has 2-storey south porch with pointed arched door and surround of 3 hollow-moulded orders, slender jamb shafts, hood mould with C19 mask stops, 2-light window above with cusped trefoil heads, cornice, parapet and coping, image niche to south with C19 image, weathered diagonal buttresses, 3-sided stair turret in angle with aisle to west, gargoyle at cornice east and west, blocked first floor east window, scratch dial without gnomon to south.

South chapel has 4-light east window with pointed arch, hood mould with mask stops, to left a bolection-moulded architrave with scallop-shell keystone and floating cornice, memorial tablet inscription worn away

4-light south window with Tudor arch, hood mould and mask stops, 4-light mullioned window with round-headed lights of C17 (formerly lighting chapel gallery)

4-bay north aisle has three 4-light windows with pointed segmental heads and hood mould, similar 3-light west window, plinth, weathered diagonal buttresses, cornice with fine gargoyles including anthropophagus to west, embattled parapet

2nd bay from west has 2-storey north porch has depressed 4-centred arched doorway with 2 jamb shafts to each side, hood mould with block stops, 2-light window above with hood mould with angel stops, 3-sided stair turret to east with embattled parapet, weathered diagonal buttresses, cornice carried round stair turret, pierced stone tracery parapet crocketed pinnacles with carved figure at base of central pinnacle and small gargoyles.

3-light C19 east window with angel stops to hood mould, ogee-headed lights

Interior: tower has pointed arched door to stair turret, C19 framed ceiling in 9 panels with moulded ribs and carved bosses, high pointed arch to nave with simple broad 2-wave moulding.

South aisle has piscina in south wall, 5-bay roof of very shallow pitch with brattished wall-plates, moulded tie-beams, principal rafters, short king- posts with carved wooden tracery between ties and rafters, C19 reconstruction

North chapel has 4-bay shallow pitched roof, principal rafters, one purlin and ridge purlin, braces at corners rising from angel corbels

Chancel has piscina in south wall, wagon roof, previously ceiled, moulded ridge purlin with large painted bosses, wall-plate over orders to north and south chapels with angel corbels, mask corbels to east.

Fittings: circular Norman font in south aisle, fluted concave bowl, convex base

rood screen across aisles and nave

fine Royal Arms over chancel arch with C17 style balusters to sides

fine C19 carved wooden pulpit

lectern probably made from mediaeval bench-ends

brass candelabra in nave.

Fine effigies in north chapel on carved tomb-chest to Sir John and Lady St. Loe c.1450

wooden painted effigy in south aisle recess, allegedly to Sir John de Hauteville, probably of late C16.

Fine monument in south chapel to Edward Baber, 1578

his wife 1601, with effigies on tomb-chest, shallow coffered arch over with 2 cherubs named Labor and Quies.

In chancel, marble tablet to Richard Jones, 1692

large marble tablet to Jones family, early C17

unidentified Baroque stone monument with Corinthian columns

brass plate on floor to Mary Clarke 1705 and Elizabeth Cory, 1690.

In north chapel, marble monument with pediment, to Hodges Strachey, 1716

marble monument to Henry Strachey, 1810, by J. Bacon Jnr. of London

baroque stone tablet to Sarah Lyde, 1662

Fragments of mediaeval glass in south window of south chapel.

gallery removed when Baber monument erected, bridge said to have been demolished later.