Parish Church of St Andrew

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TRENT - ST 5818-5918 Parish Church cf St Andrew 18/166 18/1(1) 31.7.61 GV I

Parish Church. Nave and north chapel of C13 origin, altered and extended. South tower and porch added early C14. Chancel rebuilt in C15, when nave lengthened. Repairs of 1694 and 1729 (panels on south wall). Restoration of 1840. Organ chamber and west vestry, C19 additions. Rubble-stone and ashlar walls. Stone slate and slate roofs, with gable-copings. Nave has two C15 3-light windows to north and south walls, much restored. Immediately east of the eastern window (5) are the E. splay and part of the cill of a medieval window, straight joint between the two indicating former extent of nave. C15 west window is of 3 cinquefoiled lights with vertical tracery in a pointed head, with a moulded label and returned stops. West doorway into vestry. South tower, of 3 stages with angle buttresses with set-offs, finished with a trefoiled corbel-table with head corbels, a parapet of pierced quatrefoils and angle-pinnacles. East wall of tower: ground window of two trefoiled lights with pointed trefoils and Y-tracery head. 2-light window with Y-tracery to winging-chamber. Tall 2-light window with Y-tracery and quatrefoil in head, stone tracery to bell-openings. All have labels and head-stops. South wall has a 3-light window with trefoiled lights and geometrical tracery in head; the windows above are are similar to the east wall. Access to turret staircase in S.W. angle of tower, externally. N. wall of tower has a doorway to nave roof, with chamfered jambs and pointed head. Stone spire largely rebuilt, C19, octagonal with ribbed angles. South porch: outer archway, pointed and of one continuous chamfered order, moulded label and defaced head stops. High pent roof against west face of the tower. Restored quatrefoil parapets. The north chapel has a restored early C14 E. window cf 3 trefoiled ogee lights with tracery in a pointed head. Label and head-stops. North wall and windows are C19. West wall has a blocked lancet window, C13. Angle and clasping buttresses externally. Chancel with diagonal and straight buttresses, and above them carved figures, C15. East window is of 4 cinquefoiled ogee lights with vertical tracery in a pointed head. Label with returned stops. Both N. and S. walls have 2 windows of 2 lights, similar design to E. window. West vestry, C19, of polygonal form, reset in the W. wall is a C15 doorway with moulded jambs flanked by small square buttresses set diagonally. Interior: Nave, north wall has C14 archway, segmental pointed, to N. chapel. Cavity in wall E. of this. E. wall has a C15 lower doorway to the road loft staircase, with moulded jambs and 4-centred head. The upper doorway is square-headed. Roofs: nave, mid C19, with depressed vaulting and angels holding Apostles' shields-of-arms at the springers. Porch, early C14 of 2 bays, with moulded braces forming segmental arches, carved bosses, moulded corbels carved with heads and leaves. Fittings: Rood-screen, oak, 5 bays including doorway, divided by grouped shafts supporting ribbed soffit of loft. Panelled dado, six panels to a bay, with trefoiled ogee and crocketed heads, moulded and carved rail. Open upper panels of six cinquefoiled ogee lights with vertical tracery in pointed heads, C15. (See RCHM). Under arch to north chapel, low screen of oak, 5 bays divided by carved brackets, arched panels below and enriched above, mid C17. Doors: S. doorway, medieval. W. doorway, 2 leaves with 4-centred head and panelled, C15. Pews and bench-ends, with moulded and panelled backs. Square-headed bench-ends carved with window-tracery, Apostles, symbols of Passion, etc, early C16. Some dated 1840 to match. Font-cover in tower, octagonal with base of quatrefoils and pierced traceried sides, C15. Pulpit: octagonal, with carved angles including figures, each face with cartouche below and figure- subject above, probably Dutch, c. 1600. Glass: chancel E. window, collection of C16 and C17 Swiss, German and other glass placed here in C19 by Rev. Turner. N. and S. windows have glass by Wailes, 1842, with figures of Apostles. Helmets, late C16 and C17 in north chapel. Monuments, numerous, to Storke, 1530, Freestone effigies in N. chapel, both C14. Against arch to nave, monument of plain side- columns supporting an entablature with achievement-of-arms of Gerard impaling Coker, and painted decoration on respond at back. Soffit of arch above painted with a genealogical tree. C17 monuments to Gerards, and to Sir Francis Wyndham, Bart, 1676. Weathercock, on spire, copper with rounded body. On wings are the names of the rector, churchwardens, maker and date, George Gaylard, 1698. (RCHM, Dorset I, p 253(1)).

Listing NGR: ST5895518536

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Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 253

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