Weight: 56 lbs Diameter: 14.5" Bell 1 of 1
Founded by John Goldsmith 1707
Dove Bell ID: 54152 Tower ID: 20214 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Frenze: St Andrew
Overview
Grid reference: TM 135 804
The walls are built of flint and random rubble, partly covered by stucco in some places. The roof is tiled with local red-brown clay tiles. The body of the church is a plain rectangle which formerly had a chancel; this, having fallen into ruin, was pulled down in about 1820.
Visiting and facilities
Building is closed for worship
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Ground plan:
A rectangle with a south porch and west bell-cote.
Dimensions:
70 feet by 20 feet.
Description of Archaeology and History
The church bears signs of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The roof was renewed in 1900, when the building was restored. The south porch is Tudor.
Exterior Description
The walls are built of flint and random rubble, partly covered by stucco in some places. The roof is tiled with local red-brown clay tiles.
The body of the church is a plain rectangle which formerly had a chancel; this, having fallen into ruin, was pulled down in about 1820. It seems that the present east window, with reticulated tracery above three lights, must have been from the old east wall. The four corners of the building are buttressed with stout diagnnal buttresses, and thd north and south walls have further buttresses close to the east and west ends. That at the eastern end of the south wall is especially massive. The north and south walls are almost symmetrical, both having a doorway near the west end (that on the north now disused), then an expanse of unpierced wall before a two-light Decorated window. Both these have Y tracery, that on the south with coarse cusping but that in the north a little later with ogee heads to the two lights and a pointed quatrefoil as a tracery light. Close to these windows are the buttresses just alluded to, and then each wall has a single wide lancet. The west wall is pierced by a two-light window identical to that in the south wall.
The boll-cote on the roof towards the west end of ridge appears to be entirely nineteenth-century, with a pyramidal tiled roof and a weather cock. The eaves of the roof project beyond the west gable in a slightly uncomfortable way. The south porch is built of small Tudor bricks, and has two-light windows in the side walls with brick mullions and four-centred heads. The doorway in the south wall, which is faced with dark nineteenth-century flint, has been repaired in hard cement so that the detail is difficult to see. It seems that the attached shafts carrying the arch are of brick, although the outer order has boon refaced with stone. Above the inner doorway are three niches, the central one taller than the flanking pair. Carved stone frames seem to have disappeared.
Building Fabric and Features
Stained Glass
There are small fragments of mediaeval canopy work and a distinct head in the top of the east window tracery. The south-east window has one fragment of grisaille. It is said that the church formerly had many coats of arms in the windows.
Interior
Interior Description
The interior is of little architectural interest, but neverthelesshas a pleasant atmosphere. The character of the building derives chiefly from the excellent collection of brasses in the floor (mostly to the Blennerhassett family) and the two big items (the pulpit and Squire's Pew) of Jacobean furnishing. Towards the west end are two stout tie-beams spanning the nave but which have no contact with the bell-turret; this indeed is not evident within the church at all by any substructure, and simply rests on the roof timbers. The walls are plastered, and the stones of the window reveals are left uncovered. The floor is of bricks laid herring-bone-wise, with several black ledgers in the central alley and brasses at the west end and in the chancel. The chairs with which the church is seated stand on wooden block floors which are raised above the level of the brick floor.
The font stands near the west end, between the north and south doorways, and further west a small vestry has been formed by a curtain across the church. West of this a few madiaeval benches remain. The pulpit is against the south wall towards the east end, and the square box pew for the squire is almost opposite. The sanctuary is distinguished merely by a step at which the communion rails stand, and the altar is a nineteenth-century oak structure bearing a stone monsa. There is no stained glass save in the head of the east window.
Fixtures and fittings
Altar
The altar table has a nineteenth-century oak frame bearing a thick mediaeval stone mensa. It has five incised consecration crosses.
Credence
Modern
Credence table with turned logs and carving in the Jacobean style.
Rail
Modern
In the Jacobean style.
Pulpit
Mid 17th Century
The pulpit, with backboard and tester is of unpolished oak and appears to be a part of a three-decker arrangement. It has been restored but is basically mid-seventeenth-century. The front and west side have arcaded panels with decoration of applied split turning. The panels of a frieze are carved with lunettes in relief. The backboard is similar, and the tester (which is hexagonal) has turned pendants at the angles and a central turned pendant within a moulded border.
Stall
15th Century
The stall in front of the pulpit is basically fifteenth-century but has also boon restored. The ends of the bench arc half poppyheads,but the ends of the reading desk are complete, one mediaeval and one modern. The monkeys on the arms of the bench are partly restored.
Lectern
Of oak, a simple desk on a chamfered stem, the octagonal base inscribed in memory of Edward Mann (d. 1943).
Pew (object)
Mid 17th Century
The Squire's Pew is rectangular, the sides panelled with the same design as the pulpit. The frieze panels are open with turned balusters. Within there is a bench on two sides, and the door has its orir;inal H hinges and iron bolt.
Bells
Churchyard
Grid reference: TM 135 804
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 | N/A |
| Solar Thermal Panels | N/A |
| Biomass | N/A |
| Wind Turbine | N/A |
| Air Source Heat Pump | N/A |
| Ground Source Heat Pump | N/A |
| Ev Charging | N/A |
Species summary
There are no records of species within the curtilage of this site.
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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.
'Seek advice' Species
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