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St Andrew

Stratton

Cornwall

C12 font, mid C14 north aisle, C15 tower, south aisle and chancel, late C19 vestry, restoration and partial rebuilding of 1888 by St Aubyn and Wadling.

Architectural Features

Medieval dressings granite, C19 dressings, Ham Hill and probably Hatherleigh stone.

Five 3-light windows to south side and one to west end of south aisle retain C15 granite sills, jambs, arches and hoodmoulds with C19 freestone Perpendicular tracery.

2 westernmost windows of north side arched freestone 3- light windows without cusping under hoodmoulds, probably C19 replacements of C16 windows.

West front of tower has C14 Ham Hill doorway, window and statue replacing medieval Polyphant work.

Order of vine carving round doorway, flowers carved in square-headed frame.

Crockets carved on hoodmould.

Statue niche above appears to be medieval work.

Porch roof Perpendicular open waggon with moulded ribs and bosses, vine-carving on wall plate.

Moulded 4-centred arched inner door with carvings in spandrels.

C14 Decorated polyphant north arcade financed circa 1348 by Sir Ralph de Blanchminster.

South arcade, rebuilt 1888, consists of Perpendicular granite monolith piers of 4 shafts and 4 hollows with conventional carved capitals supporting moulded arches.

Open waggon roofs throughout with carved ribs and bosses look largely original.

Font, circa C12 bowl with cable moulding at base set on mid C19 stone base.

C17 5-sided drum pulpit on wineglass stem has panels of round-headed blind arches.

Some circa early C16 rectangular bench ends fixed to C20 benches have panels of blind tracery and are carved with monograms and armorial bearings.

Stair to former rood loft in south side, present rood screen 1901 by E H Sedding.

Mutilated effigy of cross-legged knight in window embrasure in north aisle probably late C13.

Arundel brass fixed to west wall commemorates Sir John Arundell, died 1561.

Brass figures, inscription and armorial bearings set in stone matrix which was formerly the lid of an altar tomb.

Royal Arms in plaster on Lady Chapel wall.