More information : [SK 97349993] St. Andrew's Church [TU]. (1)
St. Andrew's Church is Decorated and Perpendicular. (2)
In normal use. (3)
ST ANDREW. A Perp church with Dec arcades. They are of three bays with octagonal piers and double-chamfered arches. But is the W tower really Perp? It is unbuttressed and has a rectangular staircase projection which seems to indicate an earlier date. As for the Perp features, they include battlements and pinnacles on aisles, chancel, and clerestory. About 1775 the two E attachments to the chancel were built, in the Gothic style, with quatrefoil E windows. The southern one serves as the family mausoleum of the Dukes of St Albans. Of the same time the charming coved plaster ceiling of the chancel (1777) and groined plaster vault of the nave. Nattes shows an C18 Gothic W porch and windows which may all be C18 too.
FONT. Good big baluster; Richard Hayward paid for it in 1775.
STAINED GLASS. The E window with a horrific scene of Sodom and Gomorrha under quite harmless canopies and the aisle windows with the Apostles are of c.1840 and by William Collins. The scene of horror is very much in the style of John Martin, who as a young man worked for Collins. - Medieval bits in the aisle windows too.
PLATE. Chalice and Paten Cover, by John Morley of Lincoln, 1569; Chalice and Paten, by Paul de Lamerie, 1750.
MONUMENTS. Incised slab of Sir Gerald Sothill <> 1410 (chancel S). Foreign, according to Greenhill. - Low tomb recess in the chancel N wall with cusped ogee arch. - Tablets to William Carter <> 1752 and Roger Carter <> 1774, both probably of c.1775 and very fine. Probably by Hayward. Both have reliefs, the former a scene of tree-planting, the latter a Chinese harbour and a ship. - Lady William Beauclerk <> 1797, Grecian. - Duchess of St Albans, 1838 by Chantrey, a draped Grecian altar. She was the widow of Thomas Coutts and had earlier been Harriet Mellon, one of the most charming of English actresses. - Ninth Duke of St Albans, 1851 by Lough. Big relief of mourning mother with two children. Gothic surround. (4)
22/68 Church of St Andrew
6.11.67
GV I
Parish church, declared redundant c1978. C14-C15 with late C18
rebuilding, including new north and south chapels and partial
rebuilding of 1770s by William and Thomas Lumby of Lincoln, plaster
ceilings of 1775-7, top 2 stages added to tower 1785; new west door,
partial rebuilding of aisles, chancel and clerestory also probably
of 1770s-80s. South chapel rebuilt as mausoleum for Dukes of St Albansin early C19. Restorations of 1888 by W W Goodhand of Redbourne
include removal of gallery, re-seating, new south porch. Vestry door
inserted and east side-windows removed c1985; restorations underway
at time of resurvey. Squared limestone and coursed rubble with
limestone ashlar dressings; rendered to east side of vestry.
Lead roofs, aisles, nave and chancel; Welsh slates to mausoleum,
vestry and porch. West tower with rectangular south-east staircase
projection and west entrance, 3-bay aisled nave with south porch,
single-bay chancel with organ chamber/vestry adjoining north side
and St Albans Chapel/mausoleum adjoining south side. Side-alternate
quoins throughout, those to mausoleum raised, remainder flush.
4-stage tower: moulded plinth, stages stepped-in. Tall first stage:
blocked west door with 4-centred moulded arch beneath foiled
spandrels and square-headed hood-mould; 4-centred arch 3-light
cinquefoiled west window with hood-mould; square-headed 2-light
cinquefoiled west window with hood-mould; lighting slits to north
and south. Stair turret to first stage has 3 lighting-slits and
inscribed square ashlar sundial with remains of iron gnomon.
Moulded string course. Second stage: pointed 2-light trefoiled
windows, moulded string course. Third stage: large clockface to
west, plain string course. Fourth stage: pointed 2-light trefoiled
belfry openings with hood-moulds. Moulded string course, coped
embattled parapet. Aisles: pointed 2-light trefoiled windows, one to
south with tracery missing at time of resurvey. Carved finial set in
south aisle south wall. Clerestory: square-headed 2-light trefoiled
windows, sections of former columns incorporated in north and south
walls. 4-centred arch east chancel window, boarded-up at time of
resurvey. 2 pointed 2-light trefoiled north windows to vestry;
pointed chamfered south door to mausoleum with hood-mould. Moulded
string course, coped embattled parapets with crocketed pinnacles
throughout (some pinnacles missing at time of resurvey). Porch:
chamfered plinth, buttresses, pointed moulded arch beneath hood-mould;pointed chamfered inner arch beneath blocked pointed window with
hood-mould. Interior. Arcades of pointed double-chamfered arches
on octagonal piers with chamfered bases and moulded capitals, the
south piers slightly taller; moulded corbelled responds. Tall tower
and chancel arches of 2 orders with hollow chamfers dying into
jambs; hood-mould to chancel arch. Tower: 4-centred arch to staircase,deeply-splayed west doorway: pair of corbels to north and south
walls, probably for former gallery. Second stage of tower contains
timber base for former octagonal spire. South aisle: blocked
round-headed door to east, blocked former lancet to west, blocked
circular windows to east and west, blocked pointed south window;
C10-C11 carved interlace stone re-set in west wall. North aisle has
pointed arch to organ chamber. Aisle windows have stuccoed brick
arches and ashlar jambs. Chancel: broad crocketed ogee-arched niche tonorth with sub-cusping and carved shield finial over fine incised
black marble graveslab to Gerald Sothill (d1410) with inscribed borderand figure of knight flanked by angels, re-set 1985. Deeply-chamfered
ogee arch to organ chamber with plain moulded capitals and hood-mould
with foliate finial. Small square-headed recess to south. Architrave
and sill string course to east window. Fine 3-bay quadripartite
vaulted plaster ceiling to nave with foliate bosses and plain moulded
timber corbels. Fine elliptical barrel-vaulted plaster ceiling to
chancel with Gothick panelling and trefoiled corbelled cornice.
Plaster ceiling to north aisle. Flagstone floors with black insets.
Good series of marble wall tablets in chancel. South side: to William
Carter (d1752), with carved urn bearing relief of men planting a tree,and to Roger Carter (d1774), with carved base and fine relief of ship
and oriental landscape with pagoda, both attributed to Richard
Hayward, 1778-9; to Charlotte and Rev Robert Carter Thelwall, of 1782,by Hayward, with obelisk and relief of mourning figure with urn; to
William, 8th Duke of St Albans and Maria his wife, of c1825. North
side: to William, 9th Duke of St Albans, of 1851, by J C Lough, with
figures of mourning mother and childen in Gothic ashlar surround; to
Harriot, Duchess of St Albans, of 1838, by Chantry, with draped altar
bearing arms and coronet in relief; to Charlotte, Lady Beauclerk, of
c1825. Gravestone in tower to Thomas Waterhouse of 1723 with rustic
inscription and ornament. Exceptional painted east window of c1840 by
William Collins (a copy of "The Opening of the Sixth Seal" by Francis
Danby), boarded-up at time of resurvey. Series of 12 stained-glass
windows of Apostles, of c1840, by William Collins, and fine carved
baluster-shaped font of 1775, by Richard Hayward, in store at time of
resurvey. Mausoleum contains 2 tiers of C19 tombs of St Albans Family
with inscribed marble tablets. Work at church in 1770s recorded in
Carter Estate accounts includes stuccoing chancel, aisles and other
work by a plasterer called Kibblewhite in 1775-7. (5)
There is a fragment of possible cross shaft or shrine of 8th or early 9th century date set in the west wall of the south aisle. (6)
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