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St Andrew

St Andrew

Winston

Durham

Mid C13, restored 1848 by John Dobson.

Architectural Features

Mid C13 sandstone rubble with roughly-dressed quoins

north wall has medieval stonework, 3 restored lancets and a blocked door at west end

Mid C13 2-bay chancel of large proportions

Fittings: choir stalls have C17 carved poppyhead bench ends

font, possibly C14 and later re-cut, is circular bowl on cylindrical shaft with low relief of fighting dragons, tracery and flower motifs round rim.

Monuments: fragment of cross-head (possibly pre-Conquest)

large medieval grave cover with foliated cross at west end of nave

3 brasses in floor

early C18 oval marble memorial tablet, in pedimented aedicule, to the parents of Peter Lancaster, Rector, in south wall of chancel.