Description

HOLME HALE CHURCH ROAD
TF 80 NE
(south side)
5/25 Church of St.Andrew
23:6:60

GV I

Parish church. Medieval and later. Flint with ashlar and some brick
dressings. Slate and pantile roofs. West tower; nave with north aisle and
north porch; chancel. C14 and C15 west tower with angle buttresses. Ground
floor with opposed chamfered doorways of 2 orders to north and south sides.
Moulded string with irregularly formed brick and flint relieving arches above
to each side. First floor with cusped single lights to each side (interior
also). Second floor with loops to south and west. Very large 3-light
Perpendicular bell openings. Crenellated parapet. South wall of nave with
wave moulded doorway and 3 fine 3-light panel-traceried windows with cusped
soufflets. North aisle with 4 3-light panel-traceried flat headed windows
and one 2-light west window in Decorated style. Porch with rendered brick
dressings to 2-light side windows and entrance arch. Wave moulded north door-
way. 4 2-light panel-traceried clearstorey windows and one 3-light window
in eastern nave gable. Chancel with one blocked flat headed window and a wave
moulded priest's door to north; a modern 3-light cusped east window and 2
traceried 3-light flat headed south windows. Interior. 4-bay C14 north arcade
of circular piers supporting hollow chamfered arches of 3 orders with a hollow
roll. Hood moulds with finely carved label stops. Small moulded tower arch.
Restored C15 hammer beam roof with renewed angels. Restored screen with some
original tracery. Surviving rood stair. Chancel with angle piscina of 2
cusped arches and colonnette. Re-used C12 cushion capital serving as base to
colonnette.

Listing NGR: TF8872107523

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17534763

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Recommended Books

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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)