Weight: 769 lbs Diameter: 32.5" Bell 1 of 3
Founded by John Wallis 1589
Dove Bell ID: 53460 Tower ID: 19806 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
East Lulworth: St Andrew
Overview
Grid reference: SY 853 820
Visiting and facilities
Building is open for worship
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Footprint of Church buildings: 272 m²
Exterior Description
Lying in a large churchyard surrounded by a low wall, the Church consists of Nave, Chancel, South Porch, Vestry and West Tower.
The Church is built of Purbeck Stone and Carstone with rubble infill, with tiled roofs and parapets to gables. The oldest part of the church is the mid-15th Century tower.
The massive tower constructed in 4 stages with battlemented parapets. It is unusual for a modest parish church, not only because of its size but also in its design. The tower of 4 stages, is divided externally into four stages by weathered offsets above a moulded plinth with battlemented parapets and corner pinnacles. It has diagonal buttresses. There are tall narrow traceried windows to belfry, with large stone corbels between these. There are two-light windows in the lowest stage.
Interior
Interior Description
The tower arch is triangular in shape, rounded at the springing, and of two moulded orders on the East side but simply splayed on the West. On each jamb, the mouldings, which stop on a high splayed plinth, are in part interrupted to give place to a niche with moulded pedestal and ogee crocketed canopy. 15th Century Bracket over tower arch, is of moulded stone.
In the North wall a doorway with four-centred head leads to a vice. The West doorway has a moulded four-centred arch under a label returned from the plinth and with plain shields in the spandrels.
In the North, South and West walls are windows each of two cinque-foiled lights in a moulded square head with a label and with a moulded four-centred rear arch, the moulding being carried down the splays.
The South window has been entirely renewed.
Across each corner of the ground storey are ashlar squinches supported on demi-angels holding shields, now defaced. Higher up on the squinches and immediately below the timber floor are traceried pendants of a stone vault apparently never completed; those in the North East and North West corners have been destroyed. In place of a vault there is a floor with moulded timber plates and intersecting beams carrying chamfered joists laid flat. At the intersection of the beams is a carved foliated boss. The second stage has a small square-headed light to the North. The top stage has in each wall three windows each of a single transomed light with deeply moulded square head and reveals; the lights are trefoiled under the head and under the transom. Between the window heads outside are boldly projecting moulded corbels.
Bells
Weight: 1098 lbs Diameter: 36.38" Bell 2 of 3
Founded by John Kebyll
Dove Bell ID: 53461 Tower ID: 19806 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Weight: 1032 lbs Diameter: 38" Bell 3 of 3
Founded by William Knight 1718
Dove Bell ID: 53462 Tower ID: 19806 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Churchyard
Grid reference: SY 853 820
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.
The churchyard has war graves.
Environment
Ancient, Veteran & Notable Trees
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
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.
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.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
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.
'Seek advice' Species
More information on species and action to be taken upon discovery.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
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.
Further information
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