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St Andrew

St Andrew

Burnham-on-Sea

Somerset

C14, C15, C19.

Architectural Features

Also early C14 the South doorway and door, the latter reused on the porch

Late C14 tower with set-back buttresses, battlements, topping stair turret, 2-light bell chamber windows

The nave of late C14/early C15 much remodelled, 3 bays, 3-light windows

commissioned 1686 by James II from Grinling Gibbons and Quellin for the chapel of Whitehall Palace.

3 cherubs removed to North aisle, the large flanking angels on pedestals now under the tower.

Furniture includes a much remodelled Jacobean pulpit

St Andrew's church has a famously leaning tower at the west end, built in the late fourteenth or early fifteenth century and immediately started to tilt on the soft sandy soil. The angle can be seen by the west window. In front is the font, which has been decorated with some pebbles - doubtless from the beach.

branch of 1773, C19 pews, choir stalls, font and altar rail

St Andrew's church has a famously leaning tower at the west end, built in the late fourteenth or early fifteenth century and immediately started to tilt on the soft sandy soil. The angle can be seen by the west window. In front is the font, which has been decorated with some pebbles - doubtless from the beach.

© Neil Owen

Tablet of 1598 under the tower to Austin Bord

5 further C19 wall monuments, the most elaborate to Reed family in the nave.

Some remains of medieval glass to South-West window of nave

remainder of stained glass C19.

Three painted plaques to the vestry commemorating local charities of the C17/C18.