Benchmark - S Andrew - Wroxeter, Shropshire - U.K. and Ireland Trigpoints on Waymarking.com

Cut benchmark on the north west corner of St Andrew's church tower, Wroxeter.

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"Parish church. Anglo-Saxon work incorporating Roman masonry, early C16, circa 1763, restored circa 1863 and tower restored and porch added in 1890. Coursed sandstone rubble chancel, dressed red and grey sandstone nave and base of tower, and grey sandstone ashlar top stages to tower; plain tile roofs. Nave, south porch, chancel, south vestry, and west tower. Tower: early C16 on C12 first stage visible to north and south. 3 stages; plinth, diagonal buttresses with 4 offsets, chamfered and moulded string courses, moulded string with corner gargoyles to battlemented parapet, and pyramidal cap with weathervane; semi-octagonal stair turret to north-east with broaches to square first stage and pyramidal cap; re-used carved fragments in west, north and east fronts said to have come from Haughmond Abbey [Uffington C.P. (q.v.)] at the time of the Dissolution including canopied niches, some with figures, and ceiling bosses; 4-centred arched belfry openings with 2 trefoil- headed louvred lights, and returned hoodmoulds; chamfered rectangular openings to second stage; large first stage 4-centred diamond-leaded 3- light west window with panelled tracery, moulded reveals, and returned hoodmould. Nave: Anglo-Saxon north wall incorporating Roman blocks with lewis holes, south arcade and south aisle rebuilt circa 1763 with dentil brick eaves cornice and stone-coped parapeted gale ends; south side: three C19 windows with 2 cinquefoil-headed lights, Y-tracery, and chamfered reveals; C19 chamfered-arched doorway to left with pair of boarded doors, and porch of 1890 with buttresses, parapeted gable, double chamfered archway with hoodmould with carved stops, and string; chamfered double lancets and carved frieze to sides; fragment of probably C17 cross shaft set high up in nave wall with carved interlace, foliage and dragon, and 2 flanking reset blocks with carved beast and bird, probably also C7; north side: Anglo-Saxon to left with probably C13 addition to right (see straight joint); remains of probably Saxon blocked window to left; C13 triple stepped lancets to left with chamfered reveals, central 4-centred arched early C16 window with 3 cinquefoil-headed lights, panelled tracery, and moulded reveals, and paired lancets to right. Chancel: C12 incorporating some Roman masonry to north; C12 cill string; central blocked C12 priest's doorway to south with one order of shafts, chevron decoration and hoodmould with carved volute stops, and blocked C14 window interrupting string to right with 2 cinquefoil-headed lights, Y-tracery, and moulded reveals; north side has two C12 windows with chamfered reveals; early C16 Tudor-arched 5-light east window with panelled tracery, moulded reveals, and hoodmould; evidence of former triple east lancets in disturbed masonry to each side, and small C12 window in gable above. Vestry: circa 1763; dentil brick eaves cornice and stone-coped parapeted gable end; 2 small-paned square windows with projecting keystones flanking central round-arched boarded doorway with architrave, impost blocks, and projecting keystones; commemorative plaque beneath right-hand window inscribed: "Underneath was interred/the Body/of Mrs Susanna Buckley/of Salop. Widow/who died March 9th 1807,/Aged 83 Years"."

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