Description

TOTTINGTON
TL 89 NW

3/86 Church of St. Andrew.

16.7.58 II*

Parish church. c.1360, restored 1885-6 by E.P. Willins. Rendered flint with
ashlar quoins and tiled and pantiled roofs. West tower, nave, aisles and
chancel. Tower of 4 stages. Angle buttresses to west becoming diagonal and
diagonal to east. Arched and moulded west door below 2-light window. Cusped
lancets to ringing chamber and 2-light belfry windows, louvred. Battlemented
parapet with string course. Small kneelers to coped aisle walls. South porch
with rebuilt round arch in brick below small niche. Blocked 3-light Perpen-
dicular windows east and west under flat hoods. Roof with tie bars and braces
to ridge piece. Undercut moulded door. Chancel with priest's door, one flat
buttress north and south and diagonal at east. Clerestorey walls rebuilt
in 1886 with new 3-light cusped windows. All aisle and chancel windows covered
with corrugated iron sheets but tracery survives of transitional Decorated
and Perpendicular styles as follows (from south aisle west to north aisle
west via east end) : 3-light panel with spiked lozenges; 2-light ogeed with
reticulation units within larger units vertically; 2-light reticulation net;
2-light round headed cusped lights and diagonal petal; 3-light piled
mouchettes; 2-light panel; 2-light panel; east window C19 stem and leaf; 3-
light intersecting; 3-light pierced panel; 2-light ogeed with rounded trefoils
in vesica; 2-light panel above battlemented transom; 2-light ogeed with 3
mouchettes (14 windows). Interior has 4-bay arcade. Quatrefoil piers with
continuous hollows and filleted lobes north and south on low polygonal bases.
Polygonal capitals support chamfer and sunk quadrant arches with hood on head
stops. Clerestorey window splays fall below apex of arcade. Tall chancel
arch similar. Nave and south aisle roofs 1886. Nave scissor braced with
collars on battlemented wall plates. North aisle roof mainly C14. Moulded
rafters and purlins. Alternate principals on arched braces carrying pierced
traceried spandrels. Chancel roof lowered and plastered. Cinquefoiled sedilia
and piscina. Reredos 1896. Plain octagonal font. No other furnishings.

Listing NGR: TL8939795521

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17553941

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover