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Saint Andrew

Architectural Features

C14 work in tower, remainder mostly rebuilt in 1476, some C19 restoration by John Norton.

Chancel, late C15, has double plinth course, eaves course with gargoyles, crenellated parapets

Nave visible as a clerestorey: 3-light traceried windows set in 4-centre arched chamfered recesses, no labels, with gargoyle string course and crenellation above.

North aisle has double plinth, eaves course with gargoyles, battlements, bay and angled corner buttresses

east window of 2 light with cusped Y-tracery similar to Low Ham Church (qv) and may be late C17.

to right a canopied stoup, and above a canopied statue niche with C19 figure: inside a fine moulded rib and panel timber roof with rose and leaf bosses

triple plinth bands, string courses, battlemented parapets with small canopied figure to one south merlon, and corner gargoyles

Inside, the interior almost entirely C15.

Chancel has fine moulded kingpost truss roof, with arched-braced ties and a wealth of rosettes, angels and other carvings

choir stalls incorporate C15 work, and in the wide panelled chancel arch a timber screen of the Devon type with elaborate fan-vaulted overthrow, well preserved. gave has standard hollowed 4-shaft piers to arcading, and matching roof

the tower arch could be C13.

Pulpit and lectern C19, but many C15 bench ends to pews.

Moulded rib and panel timber roofs to both aisles, matching the south porch: in south aisle a C17 altar table, and a C12 lead-lined tulip bowl font on turned base with cable mould, a C20 cover in a C17 style.

Some fragments of C15 stained glass in the east window tracery.

Brass tablet to John Dyer, died 1499, Rector who paid for rebuilding of chancel.