Description

SE 5847-5947 BISHOPTHORPE CHANTRY LANE
(north end)

3/36 Ruined Church of
St Andrew

- II

Ruined church. 1768. Attributed to Atkinson for Archbishop Drummond.
Pinkish-orange brick with magnesian limestone ashlar facade. Gothick style.
West wall, foundations of nave, trandsepts and chancel walls and traceried
head of one window now remain. West end: full-height angle buttresses with
off-sets surmounted by crocketed pinnacles. Badly wesathered, Tudor-arched
central doorway under hood-mould, quatrefoils in the spandrels. To either
side, an ogee-headed niche with head stops ornamented it crockets and
finial, that to left containing fluted columnar pedestal with capital and
traces of Gothick decoration in flutes. To first floor: 3-light, pointed
window under hood-mould with head stops and little remaining tracery.
Above: bell turret crocketed to left and with cross at apex.

Listing NGR: SE5978847732

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Ruined Church of St Andrew at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26460206

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Recommended Books

• 
  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  For the Record
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)