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St Andrew

West Boscombe

Wiltshire

C13, C15, refitted 1633, repaired 1755 and restored 1936-8. Flint with limestone dressings, tiled roofs

Architectural Features

Small timber window with iron casement lighting pulpit

North door to chancel also chamfered and east door to vestry, retaining cross boarded C17 door and lock

Vestry remodelled raised in C17, has 5-light transomed and ovolo moulded north window

Chancel roof, C15, also trussed rafters to carry plaster vault, now removed

Fittings: Font, a simple tub with base torus set on short column, medieval

C17 cover with turned baluster supported by simple ogee brackets

Pulpit dated HS.1633.ID

upper panels carved

C17 box pews, probably also 1633, reworked in C19

Monuments: In nave, north wall

Over chancel beam, royal arms of Victoria

Two brasses, one commemmorating placing of roadside seats after second world war

probably C16

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