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St Andrew (Church of England) (Redundant Churches Fund)

St Andrew (church Of England) (redundant Churches Fund)

Buckland

Hertfordshire

Chancel, nave and former S Lady Chapel C14 (Salmon in his History of Hertfordshire 1725 recorded the inscription in a chancel window 'Nicholai de Bakeland qui istanc Ecclesiam cum Capella Beatiae Mariae construxit A o Domini 1348'), tower c.1400, S aisle and S porch late C15

Architectural Features

Steep red roofs of machine made tiles but metal covering to S aisle and spire to pyramidial tiled tower roof

A small church with tall narrow nave, chancel on different alignment, a broad S aisle incorporating the lower part of the E and S walls of the former Lady Chapel, large square tower embattled with diagonal buttresses, and C15 S porch

Blocked C15 N door, and W door in tower

Chancel has C19 3-light E window in C15 style, 2 2-light C14 traceried windows in S wall, a contemporary doorway between, a lowside window at W end, and a string course at sill height of the upper windows continued as a hood to the lower openings

Wide arch on N has angel musicians as stops to hood mould and stencilled, pine-cased organ central below

Encaustic tile 'carpet' to raised step at E end similar tiles among floor slabs

3-bays nave with 3 2-light tall C14 traceried windows in N wall with head stops to hood moulds inside and outside

C15 blocked N doorway with moulded 3-centred arch

Corbels for rood loft contemporary with C14 windows and upper door from former rood stair on S wall (lower door in S aisle but steps gone). 3 bay S arcade inserted C.1480 with carved angel W impost corbel to wider W bay

3-bays broad S aisle has trefoil piscina and string course below E window both in the E bay, remaining from the C14 Lady Chapel

3-light C15 cinquefoil windows at E, W, and 2 in S wall

C15 S door with external 4-centred arch of 2 moulded orders under a square head with traceried spandrels

Contemporary fine C15 almost flat timber roof with heavy flat joists, moulded members as wallplates, central purlin, principal and sub-principal cross-beams

Carved foliate bosses along centre at junctions with cross-members

Sub-principals have plain length next S wall for the wooden angels with wings displayed normal in this area in C15 but now missing here

Fittings: Barnack stone font roughly recut on moulded clunch base

drum type C19 panelled wooden pulpit with trefoil piercing on circular moulded fat stone base

3 groups of brasses set on wall behind the alter to Alice Botelet d. 1451, William Langley, rector, d.1478, John Gyll d. 1499, with children

Wall monuments in S aisle in white alabaster to Susan Clerke d. 1634 with epitaph, bust and small Mannerist flanking figures

There are stained glass remains of C14 canopy work in 2 N windows of nave