St Andrew's church - Glaston, Rutland
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N 52° 35.719 W 000° 40.687
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Anglican church of St Andrew, Glaston.
Waymark Code: WM11JHB
Location: East Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 11/01/2019
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The church lies to the north of the village away from the busy A47. It consists of a chancel, central tower with broach spire, nave, north aisle and south porch. The tower dates from the 12th century as does the chancel which was probably the earliest part of the church.
The north aisle was added in around 1200 and there is a small vestry at the east end of the aisle. In the 14th century the church was in a great measure rebuilt and assumed more or less its present appearance. This rebuilding, or remodelling, was begun about 1340–45 by the widening and extension eastward of the aisle, which was made to overlap the tower on its north side, the intention being also to lengthen the nave by a bay. In the 14th century the clerestory windows were added.
The chancel was also rebuilt and enlarged in the latter half of the 14th century, possibly at the same time as the nave, or shortly after. It was widened by building the new south wall outside the old one, covering the south-east angle of the tower, but the west wall was rebuilt on the old foundations. Of the former chancel nothing remains.
No structural changes of importance were made in the 15th century, though a new window appears to have been inserted in the aisle, and a rood-loft, of which traces remain, was probably first erected. In the 16th or early 17th century, new windows were inserted in the bell-chamber and in the lower stage of the tower, and the east tower arch was remodelled. The porch is said to have been rebuilt in 1622, and in 1699 a singing gallery was erected at the west end of the nave. The chancel was restored in 1863, and the nave in 1864. At a later restoration, in 1880, the porch was again rebuilt."
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