Description

TG 03 NW FIELD DALLING LANGHAM ROAD (west side)

4/1 Church of St.Andrew 6:3:59 _ I

Parish church. Medieval. Flint with stone dressings. Lead roofs, pantiles to porch. West tower, nave, north aisle, south porch, chancel. Embattled tower of 2 stages with diagonal buttresses. West window of 3 lights, the centre light with ogee head; panel tracery; hood mould. Single cusped lights to ringing chamber. Bell-openings with 2 ogee-headed lights; continuous sill band; hood mould. Buttressed nave of 4 bays. 3 restored 4-light windows with panel tracery to south. Rood stair. To north a doorway with continuous hollow chamfer and hood mould; 3 3-light windows with panel tracery under 4-centred arches; hood moulds. Restored west window to aisle of 3 lights with embattled transom. East wall of aisle rebuilt in brick and flint probably in C18. Clerestorey with 3 windows, the centre one blocked, having 2 cusped lights. Buttressed chancel of 2 bays, the south wall of galleted flint. One 3-light window with cusped reticulated tracery. Priests door with continuous hollow chamfer hood mould. One window with 2 ogee lights under stilted round arch; stilted hood mould. North chancel with one large blocked opening, the shafts with polygonal capitals visible. One 2-light window with cusped reticulated tracery; hood mould with figure stops. Blocked doorway with 4-centred brick arch. East window of 3 lights with cusped reticulated tracery, restored; hood mould with figure stops. Heavily restored porch to first nave bay; small cusped lights to east and west. C19/C20 brick eaves dentils, kneelers and to gable. Continuous hollow chamfer to archway; probably C19 inner arch on corbels with shields. 6 orders to continuously moulded nave doorway with hollow in middle; moulded hood. Restored medieval door. Interior. 4 bay nave arcade with cruciform piers; the east and west shafts rising to carry inner order; polygonal capitals; broad hollow to north and south shafts which rise and divide to form outer order. Rere-arch to west window with castellated impost; hood mould. Arch-braced nave roof with brattished wall plate; brattished purlins, bosses. Arch-braced aisle roof with tracery in the spandrels; restored. Supported on corbels with shields, possibly C19. Doorway to rood stair with 4-centred arch. Tower arch with polygonal shafts, not central to nave. Chancel arch with shafts having polygonal capitals; 2 continuous outer orders. Chancel. Shafts to former north chapel visible. Hammerbeam roof with castellated wall plate. Ogee-headed piscina. C19 fittings to chancel. Many medieval benches with poppy-head ends with backs added in nave. Box-pews in north aisle. Restored octagonal font with octagonal base; shields to bowl.

Listing NGR: TG0062439015

External Links

• Wikidata Q17536843

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)