Church of St Andrew
CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1183690
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1183690
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Allington
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 20054 38562
Details
ALLINGTON BOSCOMBE SU 23 NW (west side) 4/5 Church of St Andrew 18.2.58 GV I
Anglican parish church. C13, C15, refitted 1633, repaired 1755 and restored 1936-8. Flint with limestone dressings, tiled roofs. Nave with western bell turret, chancel and north chapel, now vestry at right angles to nave. South nave door with chamfered round arch and mass dial on jamb. Two-light square headed trefoiled windows, east chancel wall rebuilt 1755 with 3-light window and blind spandrel. Small timber window with iron casement lighting pulpit. North door to chancel also chamfered and east door to vestry, retaining cross boarded C17 door and lock. Vestry remodelled raised in C17, has 5-light transomed and ovolo moulded north window. Square turret, clad in shingles and pyramidal tiled roof. Bench mark on south-west quoins. Interior: Nave has C19 trussed rafter roof, and bracketed truss supporting turret. Walls whitewashed over C18 and earlier paintings. Chancel divided off by beam and plastered spandrel over in lieu of wall, brackets to beam removed. Chancel roof, C15, also trussed rafters to carry plaster vault, now removed. Moulded tie beams and wall plates. Walls whitewashed. No piscina or aumbry. Fittings: Font, a simple tub with base torus set on short column, medieval. C17 cover with turned baluster supported by simple ogee brackets. Pulpit dated HS.1633.ID, panelled, the upper panels carved, reset over 6 steps and provided with panelled tester in 1709. C17 box pews, probably also 1633, reworked in C19. Panelled screen to large opening to vestry and panelled door. Monuments: In nave, north wall. A marble scroll with tie on grey marble field, by Osmund of Sarum, to Ellen Atkins, died 1851. In chancel: White marble tablet on grey, by Sanders of London, to Winifred Anne and Elizabeth Faucett, died 1830 and 1851, draped urn over. East wall, an oval white panel on grey, to Rev John Jennings, died 1763. Over chancel beam, royal arms of Victoria. Two brasses, one commemmorating placing of roadside seats after second world war. Glass, 3 yellow stained sun and star in east window, probably C16. Richard Hooker, Divine & Apologist ?1553-1600, rector 1591-95 completed The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity here before leaving for Bishopsbourne, Kent, and Isaac Walton, son of Izaac Walton was rector, 1679-80. (Churches of the Bourne Valley, 1985)
Listing NGR: SU2005338560
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 319903
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Churches of the Upper Bourne Valley, (1985)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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