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St Andrew

St Andrew

Chale

Isle of Wight

Chancel, south or Manor chapel and the Nave and aisles are C14.

Architectural Features

In the C15 the Manor chapel was lengthened eastwards, the Nave and aisles westwards and the north and south porches and west tower added.

West tower C15 of 2 stages coursed stone rubble with higher octagonal stair turret and crenellated parapet.

South porch C15 of stone, gabled with round-headed arch.

North porch also C15, stone with gable and cross-shaped saddle stone.

Entrance to rood loft c.1300.

Octagonal stone font.

South aisle has stone wall monument to Richard Burleigh rector of Chale d. 1734.

North wall has monument to Sir Henry Worsley of the Bengal Army d. 1841, a marble wall plaque with crest above flanked by Bengal lancers.

C12 round-headed arch to south chapel with moulded impost block.

Some stained glass of 1860s, rest by C.E. Kempe in 1890s. (B.O.E. "Hampshire and the Isle of Wight": 740).