Description

TA 15 NW FOSTON MAIN STREET

8/36 Church of St Andrew

20/9/66 - II*

Church. C12 nave, early C13 chancel, late C14 west tower. Ashlar, roughcast to nave and chancel, graduated slate roof. West tower, 4-bay nave with north aisle and south porch, 4-bay chancel. West tower of 3 stages with moulded plinth and string courses, and diagonal buttresses. 2-light belfry openings with cusped tracery under pointed heads with hood- moulds. Battlemented parapet. Boarded west door in pointed opening with continuous hollow mouldings. 3-light west window with C20 replacement mullions, cusped tracery and pointed head under hood-mould. Nave: one 3-light square-headed window with Perpendicular tracery to west, otherwise, round-headed windows to centre and east. 2-light windows with Perpendicular tracery under elliptical heads to clerestory. South door with continuous chamfer and pointed head; battlemented parapet. Chancel: 2-light pointed window to west with Geometrical tracery, otherwise 2-light square-headed windows with Perpendicular tracery. Pointed priest's door with continuous chamfer. East window of 4 lights with Perpendicular tracery under pointed head with hood-mould. Plain close verges. Interior: late C14 tower arch of 3 hollow-chamfered orders with scalloped capitals cut back to east. Early C13 north nave arcade with circular piers and abaci supporting double- chamfered pointed arches. Chancel: 3 C13 sedilia (easternmost cut away by C15 window) with pointed chamfered heads and filleted hood-mould. C12 tub font and defaced effigy of knight with crossed legs in nave west end.

Listing NGR: TA1006455819

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  For the Record
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)