Whitchurch Canonicorum Church (st Candida And Holy Cross)

C15 and modern additions and restorations.

Tower C15.

Carved panels on south wall of Tower, one with Viking ship.

South elevation: south aisle wall C12, C13 with renewed reticulated window tracery.

Porch C15, one storey, diagonal buttresses, massive carved grotesques.

Inside: late C12 doorway, with nook shafts, late water leaf capitals, arch-moulds include projecting dog tooth and hood-roll with gripping beak-head at apex and with beak-head terminals.

South transept, C13, west face with E.E. lancets, straight chamfered, deep hollow and big roll, keeled roll-label over.

South window: 3-light trefoil-cusped with intersecting ogees leading up to a mandorla-head with quatrefoil fill, C14.

Late C12 keeled angle shafts from carved faces at top incorporated.

East wall has a window c 1300.

South arcade, c 1170, round piers with scallop and water-leaf capitals.

North arcade, c 1190 4-respond shafts, standing on bases and plinths.

Nave extended one bay west in c C14.

Wooden waggon- roof, bossed at intersections, C15.

Tomb chest built over 3 mandorla-shaped openings for pilgrims' offerings, healing, C13.

Font, late C12, stone bowl with intersecting arcading, chip-carved saltire band over, rope- moulded base.

Pulpit, c 1630, wood, octagonal on trumpet- stem, with Carolean ornament.

Wall tomb, early C17 to Sir J Jeffery of Catherston, d 1611.

Tomb chest, stone effigy and fine carved framing. "RCHM Dorset I", p 260 (1) ff.