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St Andrew

Frampton on Severn

Gloucestershire

Cll foundation, earliest work probably of C14, altered

Architectural Features

tower added late C15/early C16, north aisle added 1842, restored c1884-5 by Sir Arthur Blomfield.

Tower of 3 stages on moulded plinth with string courses, diagonal stepped buttresses up to top of second stage, embattled parapet with gargoyles and stair vice in north east corner projecting higher as embattled turret.

South porch probably of C15 with small diagonal buttresses flanking moulded pointed archway with sundial over, inner earlier doorway and door with fine original decorative iron hinging, flanking stone wall seats with trefoil squints to each side and stoup to right and Jacobean carved bosses and mouldings to wagon roof.

Round arched chamfered entrance to rood stair probably of early C16 on south wall.

Several good wall monuments including 2 in north aisle to Lloyd family (owners of Whitminster House, q.v., in C17) - Rebecca, 1625, in marble with small kneeling effigy, and Nathaniel, late C17, in painted stone.

Jacobean pulpit.

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