Church of St Andrew

CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHALE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1209203
Date first listed:
18-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
Church of St Andrew
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHALE STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1209203
Date first listed:
18-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
Church of St Andrew
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHALE STREET

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHALE STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Chale
National Grid Reference:
SZ 48323 77567

Details

CHALE

SZ47NE CHALE STREET
1353-0/5/64 CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
18/01/67
II*

Parish church. Chancel, south or Manor chapel and the Nave and
aisles are C14. In the C15 the Manor chapel was lengthened
eastwards, the Nave and aisles westwards and the north and
south porches and west tower added. East end of chancel added
in 1832 to make it flush with the east end of the Manor
chapel. Built of Isle of Wight stone rubble with tiled roof.
Nave, north and south aisles, south chapel, north and south
porches and west tower. West tower C15 of 2 stages coursed
stone rubble with higher octagonal stair turret and
crenellated parapet. Lancet to bell stage with quatrefoil
motif. Buttresses. Plinth. Lower stage has west window with 3
lancets with cusped heads under dripmoulding. South porch C15
of stone, gabled with round-headed arch. Interior has remains
of stone stoup with trefoil head. North porch also C15, stone
with gable and cross-shaped saddle stone. Nave has 3
cinquefoil headed lights, 1 single, 2 double. South aisle has
3 double cinquefoil-headed lights, the right hand one with
hood moulding. Interior: Nave has 2 bay south arcade with
round piers, square abacus chamfered at the corners and
pointed arches with one slight chamfer. Third bay is
Perpendicular. Entrance to rood loft c.1300. Arch to Manor
Chapel. Nave has piscina with elaborate Perpendicular
brackets. Octagonal stone font. South aisle has stone wall
monument to Richard Burleigh rector of Chale d.1734. Open
pediment at the top crowned by heaped books. Black marble oval
plaque and metal coat of arms beneath. Manor chapel has
piscina in south wall with shelf over. North wall has monument
to Sir Henry Worsley of the Bengal Army d.1841, a marble wall
plaque with crest above flanked by Bengal lancers. Oak frieze
and cusped arch. C12 round-headed arch to south chapel with
moulded impost block. Some stained glass of 1860s, rest by
C.E. Kempe in 1890s.
(B.O.E. "Hampshire and the Isle of Wight": 740).


Listing NGR: SZ4832377567

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
392665
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1967), 740

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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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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