St Andrew

C15 west tower: 4 stages, crenellated parapet, diagonal 3-stage buttresses

2-light bell chamber openings on 4 faces, west doorway with fleurons to arch, hoodmould with carved shields in spandrels, plank door

above is a figure of Christ within a cinquefoil-headed niche.

South wall of nave with mostly renewed C15 windows

C15 porch, considerably restored mid C19, with cinquefoil-headed glazed niche containing the figure of St. Andrew above doorway.

North nave with C12 doorway: one order of colonettes, arch with one order of roll moulding and crude (unfinished?) beakheads

2 3-light C15 windows, mostly original.

Chancel rebuilt C18 and restored mid C19 with windows in C13 style

north transept built to receive the North monument, c.1830, splayed ends and flat roof.

C13 octagonal font, bowl of Purbeck marble with 2 shallow pointed arch panels to each face, central stem with 8 surrounding columns, octagonal base.

C19 stone pulpit, C19 benches

fragment of Trinity carving built into south-east chancel wall.

within apsidal end is monument of Dudley North , made in 1833 in Rome by John Gibson: seated white marble figure.

West transept wall with 3 C16 brasses to members of Glemham fami1y

Nicholas Herbert East and south chancel wall with 4 good tablets to North family, all with elaborate classical surrounds: Catherine North , Dudley North , Dudley North , Sir Dudley North Some C19 stained glass in nave and chancel, one C20 window in south west of nave.

Stained glass window by M.E.A. Rope. For more information about this artist read: http://www.arthur.rope.clara.net/torbio.htm For an exterior view and more information about this church go to: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1916659.

© Evelyn Simak

Graded I for medieval work and interior monuments.