St Andrew

C14 with some C18 windows.

C12 window above and renewed parapet.

on north side the vestry, a 2-light C16 window, with segmental heads to lights, and a large Victorian Geometric window.

South chapel has one south window with Y-tracery, a C12 east window

a C14 vesica above.

Interior: deeply-splayed heads of Saxon ground-floor windows in the tower.

Tower arch, perhaps C12, unmoulded arch with plain responds, the east side apparently carved in situ,with colonettes and foliage capitals, slightly later.

Circa 1200 south arcade with quatrefoil keeled piers and stepped round arches.

Chancel arch has round triple responds with cushion capitals carved on north side with faces at the corners

In chancel the responds of the former apse arch, removed when chancel was lengthened in C13, are round with cushion capitals.

C14 sedilia, with octagonal shafts, and C14 piscina.

South chapel has trefoiled niche and on the north wall a low-relief carving of shield and inscription.

Early C13 south door has colonettes and 2 rows of dogtooth.

Monuments: C14 effigy of a knight in south chapel, perhaps Robert de Reynes of Shortflatt

in the chancel John Horsley, 1770, a standing monument with vermiculate rusticated base and swan-neck pediment holding coat of arms.

Three medieval grave covers in south chapel

Octagonal medieval font.

NZ0982 : Bolam, St. Andrew's Church: The medieval font

© Michael Garlick

The Church of St. Andrew, Bolam: G.W.D. Briggs: Archaeolgia Aeliana 5th Series Vol. X. Anglo-Saxon Architecture: H.M. and J. Taylor: Cambridge 1965.

NZ0982 : Bolam, St. Andrew's Church: The Anglo-Saxon tower

© Michael Garlick