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St Andrew

Donhead St Andrew

Wiltshire

C12, C14 and C15, south aisle restored 1826, tower restored 1893, general restorations 1838 and 1875

Architectural Features

Gabled porch, probably C14, has diagonal buttresses, moulded pointed doorway with hoodmould

South aisle is C15 with 4-light square- headed windows with ogee lights and hoodmoulds, diagonal buttresses to sides and string course to battlemented parapet, east window is 3-light pointed with hoodmould

North aisle has two 3-light square-headed restored C15 windows with hoodmoulds, battlemented parapet, nave clerestory has three windows as south side

Three-stage west tower has diagonal buttresses, string courses and polygonal stair turret attached to north side, double-chamfered pointed west doorway with 3-light Perpendicular windows over, second stage has 2-light mullioned window, bellstage has 2-light square-headed louvred windows, moulded string course with gargoyles to battlemented parapet with broken corner pinnacles

Interior: porch has medieval floor tiles with star motif, collar- rafter roof, double cyma-moulded Perpendicular doorway with C19 door

3-bay aisle C15 arcades with double cyma-moulded arches on cavetto-moulded piers with attached shafts

western responds with carved heads and angels holding shield of Instruments of the Passion

C15 cyma- moulded tower arch on C19 responds

north wall of tower contains reset fragments of C14 and C15 tracery

C15 cyma-moulded chancel arch on attached shafts, chancel has C19 three-bay hammer beam roof, C19 tiled floor by Godwin

North vestry probably on site of former chapel is reached from chancel through C12 round-arched opening, C19 arch from north aisle with blocked pointed archway to right to former rood loft, vestry contains arched aumbry

limestone cylindrical font and octagonal panelled wooden pulpit

wrought-iron and brass candelabras

1850s stained glass in chancel by W. Wailes

Photo coming soon