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St Andrew

St Andrew

Washford

Somerset

Some C12 work, chancel rebuilt

Architectural Features

south chapel added or altered C13, aisle

porch mid C15, nave

aisle extended probably early C16, tower circa 1533, singing loft added 1764 and removed in C19, chancel restored circa 1844 and organ chamber added 1885.

Crenellated 3 stage tower, set back stepped buttresses rising full height to string courses with gargoyles, 3-light bell openings with Somerset tracery, blocked 3-light below, string courses of quatrefoil decoration, empty niche on South face, large 4-light West window with hoodmould, 4-centred arch West doorway with square hoodmould partly renewed in Ham stone, decorated spandrels, ribbed door, polygonal crenellated North West stair turret

to right 2 tier 3-light West window to South aisle, diagonal buttress one 3-light mullioned window with unusual cusped heads left, and 2 right of South porch, diagonal buttresses, gable end renewed in red sandstone, barrel vault roof, C19 moulded arched entrance, inner doorway Tudor arched head with remains of painted decoration and inscription in the spandrels, patterned pebble floor dated 1647/1 which should perhaps read 1847/1

end bay, South chapel, breaks forward slightly, diagonal buttress, chancel 2-light window and lancet with moulded blocked C13 doorway left and blocked lancet right, 3-light East window

Chancel, moulded ribbed barrel vault with wall plate, similar C16 barrel vault roof with bosses to nave, South chapel 3 cambered beams, chamfered with step and runout stops, moulded arch to South aisle with monopitch moulded rafter roof with bosses and elaborate wallplate.

Change in floor levels between second and third bays of nave, rich Minton tiled floor in nave and chancel, Medieval tiles set around font and in plaque hanging on North wall.

Ogee headed moulded recess in North wall containing Beer stone effigy of civilian circa 1425, the animal at his feet said to be a cat playing with a mouse.

Perpendicular octagonal font with handsome Victorian cover raised by a pulley, probably incorporating Medieval woodwork

Art Nouveau brass lectern by Dear Ramsden and Alwyn Carr dated 1911 with the name of the donor (Conrad von Hochburg of Croydon Hall) erased

2 Medieval bench ends set in panelling behind altar

brass chandelier inscribed and dated 1770

Poor Box dated 1634

brass bound box in porch perhaps C17

good selection of Victorian stained glass by Morris and Co., Henry Holiday and Kempe with 1953 window by Comper.