More information : [TA 19590495] Church [T.U] (1)
St. Andrew's, Irby, still retains Saxon arches to nave and aisles,
and much of the fabric is Early English and Perpendicular. The date
of the tower is not known, but it incorporates quoins of an
earlier church. (2-3)
In normal use. (4)
St Andrew's Church. There was a pre-Conquest church on this site for
it is stated in Domesday that "There is a church and priest, value
TRE forty shillings, now fifty, tallaged at thirty shillings".
It is doubtful if anything of the original church remains today.
The nave is Norman. There is some suggestion of AS work in the
tower, although Sutton (auth 2) thought it early Norman or perhaps
earlier. (5)
ST ANDREW. Unbuttressed W tower with Perp bell-openings. Plain S
doorway of about 1200. Most of the exterior renewed or new. The N
arcade inside is of the first half of the C12 and impressive.
Two bays, fat circular pier, square abacus, scalloped capitals,
unmoulded round arches with hood-moulds. The S arcade is a little
later. The pier slimmer, the capitals moulded, but the abacus still
square and the arches still unmoulded. To the S arcade belong the
remains of the chancel arch. The remains of blocked lancets at the
E ends of the aisles must be somewhat later. (6)
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Parish church. C12 nave arcades and chancel arch, C13-C14 tower with
later parapet. Restorations of 1794; nave clerestory removed late
C18 - early C19. Extensive restorations of 1883 by James Fowler of
Lough included rebuilding chancel, north aisle, much of south aisle.
Ironstone rubble and ashlar with limestone ashlar dressings and
tower parapet. Slate roof. West tower, 2-bay aisled nave with south
porch and single-bay chancel. 2-stage tower: chamfered plinth, pointed3-light with C19 tracery, weathered stringcourse, outline of former
nave roof of shallower pitch to east; pointed 2-light belfry openings
with Perpendicular tracery (probably reset in C19 from former nave
clerestory); cornice, coped ashlar parapet. North aisle: buttresses,
pointed 3-light traceried windows. South aisle: original angle
buttresses, C19 cillband; C19 square-headed 3-light window and
pointed 2-light traceried east and west windows. Chancel: buttresses,
cillband; single round-headed north and south windows, 3 similar
windows to east. Porch: C13 pointed chamfered outer arch, similar
earlier C13 inner arch with plain moulded imposts; inscribed mass
dial to right. Interior. C12 north arcade of plain round arches with
hoodmoulds on broad cylindrical pier with square scalloped capital,
chamfered abacus and plain moulded base. Later C12 south arcade of
taller plain round arches on narrower cylindrical pier with plain
moulded capital, square abacus and plain moulded base. Tall pointed
double-chamfered tower arch with plain moulded capitals and inner
order dying into plain jambs. Single blocked east lancets to both
aisles. Pointed-trefoilded piscina to south aisle with corbelled bowl.Blocked former roof-loft door to north aisle. C19 ceiled pine waggon
roof to chancel. Two late C14 floor slabs at west end of nave to Maletfamily: that to north with fine inscribed figures of man and woman
with pillowed heads and inscription above, that to south with much
weathered inscribed border. Plain C12 rounded font bowl on restored
base. (7)
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