Weight: 308 lbs Diameter: 24.13" Bell 1 of 1
Founded by Charles & George Mears 1849
Dove Bell ID: 57712 Tower ID: 22164 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Monkton Wyld: St Andrew
Overview
Grid reference: SY 336 963
The church was built in 1848 to designs by R.C. Carpenter at the expense of Mrs. Hodson (this is recorded on a framed document which hangs in the church). Carpenter was much favoured by the Cambridge Camden Society whose obituary of him spoke of his originality and variety and the harmony of parts in his buildings. He was a friend of Augustus Welby Pugin. The sacristy north of the chancel was added later in 1887.
Visiting and facilities
Building is open for worship
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Ground plan:
Aisled nave and chancel of almost identical dimensions, each of two bays. These are separated by a central tower carrying a stone spire. The aisles of the nave embrace the tower giving the effect of transepts although the same roof-line continues. The south porch of the nave is of timber and there are a vestry and sacristy on the north side of the chancel.
Footprint of Church buildings: 301 m²
Description of Archaeology and History
The church was built in 1848 to designs by R.C. Carpenter at the expense of Mrs. Hodson (this is recorded on a framed document which hangs in the church). Carpenter was much favoured by the Cambridge Camden Society whose obituary of him spoke of his originality and variety and the harmony of parts in his buildings. He was a friend of Augustus Welby Pugin. The sacristy north of the chancel was added later in 1887.
Exterior Description
The church is built of hard greyish flint with softer stone, also grey, for the dressings. The flints are roughly shaped into rectangular blocks, and the grey tonality is complemented by the bluish slates on the roofs. The approach to the door in the south nave aisle is from the lych-gate at the lowest corner of the churchyard from which a path cuts diagonally across between the nineteenth century head-stones. The path ends at the south porch which is of wood, with panelled sides in the lower part above which are open arcades, four arches in each of the two bays, supported on turned wooden colonettes. The south gable is weather-boarded and the barge-boards have cusped decoration which is picked up elsewhere in the church (at the giblets on the buttresses of the chancel, for example). The doorway to the church has a two-centred arch with a drip-stone ending in square label stops enriched with foliated carving. The door itself is heavily studded.
The windows of the aisles are filled with curvilinear tracery, all of two lights with attenuated trefoils in the head of both lights. Typical of the care for detail which The Ecclesiologist commended in its obituary notice of the architect is the variety of window tracery of the church which is all of the same style, but suits the demands of different parts of the building. The two windows in the south wall of the chancel are larger than those in the nave aisles, and have rather more complicated tracery, each of the paired lights having an ogee head and then there is curvilinear tracery aboved based on leaf patterns. The eaves of the chancel are enriched with a band of ball-flower ornament with a head for the water-spout which could have come from a mediaeval bestiary.
The tower which rises between nave and chancel is the same width as each of them, and is therefore of large dimensions compared with the church itself. It is divided into two equal stages by a string-course just above the level of the chancel gable. The lower storey has a single light which admits light to the crossing space within. It has a trefoil in the head and a dripstone with foliated stops. The upper stage is slightly set back and contains the bell-chamber and the clock.
The spire is a stone broach spire with two orders of lucarnes in alternate faces. The lower are two-light, miniature versions of the belfry openings below. The upper are tiny single-light lancets under gablots. Access to the upper floors of the tower is by an octagonal turret stair in the north-east angle. This has a stone conical cap which appears over the chancel roof.
The east window is the grandest in the church and stands within a retaining arch supported on attached columns. It has three lights with tracery more complicated than other windows but in the same grand style.
North of the chancel lie the vestry and sacristy; these were added in 1887. The sacristy is gabled parallel to the chancel, and the choir vestry is slightly lower, joining the two and with a roof running at right-angles to both. The vestry has a three-light window under a square-headed dripstone, rather out of keeping with the careful fenestration of the rest of the building, but Still not as unsuitable as the careless east gable of the sacristy.
The north wall has a two-light window and the west wall has a two-light window of which the lower part is blank end forms the foundation stone with an inscription stating that the additions were made in 1887.
Building Fabric and Features
Stained Glass
East window: Three principal lights - The Crucifixion in the centre light with the Resurrection on the loft and The Ascension on the right. Below these are Jonah emerging from the whale and Elijah ascending in his chariot respectively. In the tracery lights are Christ the Kinglangels with scrolls and The Instruments of the Passion.
Stained Glass
South-east window: Four parables the Sower, Return of the Prodigal son, the Good Samaritan and the Publican and the Sinner.
Stained Glass
South-west window: four gospel scenes: the Last Supper, The Healing. of the Lame Man at the Pool of Siloam, the Raising of Lazarus, Calling the Apostles Andrew and Peter by the Sea of Galilee.
Stained Glass
West window of south aisle: the Visitation with the Virgin Mary wearing the long hair of a pre-Raphaelite heroine. A memorial to Helen Rower, d. 1869.
Stained Glass
The west window of the nave: two main lights showing the Adoration of the Shepherds and the Baptism of Christ. Both are very charming, and a partly illegible inscription states that they are a memorial to someone who died in 1843.
Stained Glass
West window of north aisle: Christ with the children. A memorial to Douglas Brooke Camm, d. 1870 and typical of a date in the early 1870s.
Stained Glass
The remainder of the aisle windows form a remarkable series - notable for their vivid colours, the quality of the drawing, the monumental idealisation of tho figures and the quantity of fruit, flowers and foliage.
North aisle - west, St. Matthew and St. Markt Middle St. Luke and St. John.
Organ chamber - St. James (who has lost some paint) and St. Thomas. South aisle - west - St. Philip and St. Bartholomew; east - St. Peter and St. Paul,
East window of south aisle: two lights forming an enchanting picture with the Virgin, St. Joseph and the Holy Child in one light and the Three Kings in the other. A lily in the backgroundin one and a sunflower in the other.
Interior
Interior Description
The immediately striking feature is the feeling of space created by the centrally placed tower under which are tall arches with impressive mouldings opening into nave and chancel and smaller arches leading into the aisle bays which flank the tower giving the impression of transepts. The space thus created is filled with fine Tractarian furnishings of the best order, unexpected in such a remote country parish. It seems that the church was built for a Fr. Hutchins, a curate from London who wished to create the perfect setting for worship.
The nave, crossing and aisles are filled with pews which are plain. The floor is of red and black quarries and the walls are painted cream. The arcades opening into the aisles are borne on octagonal piers centrally and half-piers against the tower and west wall. The west window is sot high in the wall above a door which is now disused and has the universal curvilinear tracery. Its internal hood-mould has square labelstops like those outside the south door.
The chancel (including the screen) presents a remarkable and uncommon survival of Tractarian furnishing and decoration in a virtually untouched state.
Fixtures and fittings
Altar
The Altar is solid, of ashlar masonry with a mensa of polished black marble incised with five consecration crosses. There is a white silk frontal with gold lilies embroidered on it.
Altar
The super-altar consists of two gradines of carved wood, the lower inscribed with four panels and the text 'Cibavit cos frumenti et adipe alleluia. Et de petro mello saturavit cos alleluia alleluia.'
Altar Cross
Cross and candlesticks are surprisingly baroque-inspired in contrast with the rest of the building.
Stall
1886
The choirstalls are of oak, with five divided stalls in the back row on each side and a continuous bench in front with panelled back and pierced quatrefoils in groups of five. A brass plate in the shape of an angel on the wall near the screen commemorates the presentation of the stalls in 1886.
Screen
The rood screen is said to be by F.C. Eden, but it seems an intrinsic of the design and not typical of his style. It is possible that he added the Rood to an already existing screen or coloured what was there already.. The screen is in three sections. The lowest is panelled, each of the two bays having three ogee-headed panels above a row of quatrefoils. The panels are stencilled with stylized flowers, and the arcading is gilded.
Lectern
Brass eagle.
Pulpit
The pulpit is of wood, five sides of an octagon. It is elaborately carved with St. Mary Magdalene, St. Andrew, St. Mary and St. Cecilia under nodding ogee canopies.
Organ (object)
1862
The organ is by Walker, of 1862 restored by Osmond of Taunton.
Font (object)
The Font is octagonal, of stone and in the purest Decorated style. On each face of the bowl is a circlet enclosing a sexfoil, each division in the sexfoil being marked by a three-petalled floweret; above this is a frieze with carved fleurons. The bowl is supported on a chamfered stem with miniature broaches at the corners of the foot and ball-flower ornament immediately below the bowl.
Bells
Churchyard
Grid reference: SY 336 963
Burial and War Grave Information
It is unknown whether the building is consecrated.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has been used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard is used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has war graves.
National Heritage record for England designations
There are no records of National Heritage assets within the curtilage of this site.
Environment
Ancient, Veteran & Notable Trees
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There are no records of Ancient, Veteran or Notable Trees within the curtilage of this site.
Renewables
| Renewable | Installed |
|---|---|
| Solar PV Panels | No |
| Solar Thermal Panels | No |
| Biomass | No |
| Wind Turbine | No |
| Air Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ground Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ev Charging | No |
Species summary
There are no records of species within the curtilage of this site.
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'Seek advice' Species
More information on species and action to be taken upon discovery.
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To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
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