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St. Andrew

St. Andrew

Bradfield

Berkshire

Early C14 north aisle arcade with C16 tower, restored and added to in 1847-8 by Sir George Gilbert Scott in an early C14 style

Architectural Features

Diagonal buttresses to west marked W.A. and S.H, plinth, string courses, parapet string with gargoyles, coped battlemented parapet, and weathervane

cill string and two two-light windows with hoodmoulds and carved stops

two-light window with quatrefoil above, boarded door to right with chamfered arch, hoodmould and carved stops

Chancel: apsidal east end with lesenes, cill string, and five lancets with hoodmoulds, carved stops, and shafts with moulded bases and capitals

cill string, and five lancets with hoodmoulds, carved stops, and shafts with moulded bases and capitals

cill string, three lancets with hoodmoulds and carved stops

Chamfered arched doorway to left with hoodmould, imposts with carved stops, and boarded door

two lancets to right with chamfered sides, impost and hoodmoulds with carved stops, and vesica piscis in gable end above

Lancet with hoodmould and carved stops to left

South aisle: group of four lancets to right with chamfered sides, hoodmoulds, and carved stops

Moulded arched doorway off centre to left between first and second windows from left with boarded door, hoodmould with carved stops, imposts with carved stops, and shafts with moulded capitals and bases

pair of lancets with chamfered sides, imposts with carved stops, moulded arches and hoodmoulds with carved stops

quatrefoil window above with carved cusps

Interior: early C14 three bay north aisle arcade with octagonal piers, moulded bases and capitals and chamfered arches

Rich arch to apse of three orders with shafts and short wall shafts, carved capitals, carved saints in arch, and hoodmould

tapered square font with marble shafted corners and carved panels, octagonal pulpit reached through south-east aisle pier with marble shafted corners, carved choir stalls, and wrought iron railings to south aisle chapel and apse

Carved panel over north door circa 1700 from old Thompson family pew

Wall tablet in north aisle to Mary Box, 1729 by William Box, richly carved with Cherubs heads, skulls, hour glass etc