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St Andrew

St Andrew

Lyddington

Rutland

Early-mid C14 W tower and chancel

Architectural Features

nave and aisles rebuilt late C15

Chancel has moulded plinth, sill course and eaves, and 2 bays of 2-light Decorated windows with hoodmoulds and carved head stops.

Interior: Tower has brick vault with 2 medieval carved head corbels, door with chamfered arch to stair, and blocked window with chamfered arch to nave.

Labels with carved head stops.

E end of nave retains fragments of C15 wall paintings with figure of king on NE pier.

Aisles have restored roofs on carved head stone corbels.

Piscina with hacked arch and remains of C14 tracery in S aisle.

Interior of chancel is heavily restored with slender shafts and carved head label stops to windows, raised floor and C19 roof.

Fittings: rectangular ironstone font with panelled sides, C20 stand and early C17 carved wooden cover

C15 wooden screen with painted flowers and traces of painted saints on lower panels, open traceried upper panels and restored coving

Communion rails dated 1635, remarkable in that they surround the altar on all four sides

altar table of 1662

fragments of medieval glass in N window heads

C19 seating and pulpit.

Monuments: 2 stone coffin lids in tower

brasses in chancel to Sir Edward Watson and wife 1520,

to Helyn Hardy 1486.