Gargoyles - St Andrew - Whissendine, Rutland - Gargoyles and Chimeras on Waymarking.com

Some wonderful, and some very worn, gargoyles adorn the outside and tower of St Andrew's church, Whissendine.

"The magnificent west tower, 100 ft. high, has much in common with that of Oakham, especially in the treatment of the west window and doorway and of the angle turrets and parapet; it is of three stages, the upper stage being very lofty, but is without a spire. The tower is built of Barnack stone and has a boldly moulded plinth, pairs of buttresses its full height but diminishing at each stage, massive octagonal pinnacles or angle turrets and parapet with three round-headed openings on each side. The vice is in the south-west angle. The west doorway and window are contained within a lofty pointed arch of three moulded orders, on jambs composed of three engaged and thrice banded shafts, with moulded capitals. The window is of three lights with reticulated tracery, and the doorway has a pointed arch of two moulded orders on moulded imposts. Above, in the middle stage, as at Oakham, are three slightly ogee niches, formerly containing statues, but now empty. On the north and south the two lower stages are blank. In the bell-chamber are pairs of tall and deeply recessed windows of two trefoiled lights on the north and east sides, with quatrefoils in the heads, divided horizontally by trefoiled ogee transoms; the arches are of three moulded orders on twice banded shafts with moulded capitals and bases, and the wall space on either side is filled with blind tracery of the same character in single narrow arches. On the south and west sides, where the position of the openings is affected by the vice, one of the windows is omitted and the remaining wall space is filled with blind tracery. Below the parapet is a cornice of ball- flower and heads and a fine series of grotesque gargoyles, two on each side."

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