Description

SANDFORD ORCAS ST 6220 - 15/120 Parish Church of 31.7.61 St Nicholas GV I Parish Church. C14 chancel. Nave and south chapel rebuilt C15. West tower and south porch added C15. North aisle added 1871, when church restored. Caused rubble-stone walls. Stone slate roofs with stone gable-copings, and crosses at apices. Chancel has a C15 east window of 3 cinquefoiled lights with vertical tracery in a 2-centred head. Moulded label and head stops. C14 trefoiled rear arch. North wall has 2 early C14 windows, eastern of 2 trefoiled ogee lights, with a quatrefoil in a pointed head. Label over. West window is a single pointed light with a label. South wall has 2 windows similar to the north-east window. Early C14 doorway has chamfered jambs, pointed arch and label. Nave of 3 bays, with one bay of south chapel. South chapel has a C15 east window of 3 cinquefoiled lights with vertical tracery in a pointed head. Moulded reveals and label. South wall has a C15 window of 4 cinquefoiled lights in a square head with moulded reveals. The west wall has a partly restored doorway. South porch has a C15 outer archway with double responds, moulded capitals and bases. Inner doorway has bracket-moulded jambs, stopped. Plank-and-muntin door, with strap hinges, C19. West Tower: 3 storeys, with an embattled parapet and gargoyles. The west doorway has moulded jambs and 2-carved arch in a square head, foliage spandrels and one remaining head-stop. West window of 3 cinquefoiled lights with vertical tracery in a pointed head. Bell-chamber has windows of 2 trefoiled lights with a quatrefoil in a pointed head. Label and head-stops. North aisle, 3 three-light, windows with buttresses, between, and diagonal corner buttresses. Interior: north arcade has respond-shafted piers, foliage capitals and pointed arches. Moulded tower-arch springs from moulded responds. Roof, of nave: arch- braced collar construction carried on stone corbels, C19. Chancel, C19 pointed wagon roof. South chapel: compartmented ceiling having fleurons with quatrefoil surrounds. Chancel-arch, C15 much restored. Fittings: font, round stone bowl with rounded underside, bowl enriched with large vertical flutings, finished with a scalloped edge, moulded necking, cylindrical stem and base, C13. Piscinae, chancel C13. South chapel, C15. Screen: in tower-arch, 3 bays including central doorway, oak, C15. Monuments: in south chapel, to Knoyle, Hutchings and Medlicott families, especially that to William Knoyle 1607-8, painted alabaster wall-monument. Communion Table, C17. (RCHM, Dorset I, p 194(1)).

Listing NGR: ST6223921046

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