St Andrew’s, Holme Hale

Open Saturdays from 10am to 5pm.
Toilets nearby
Wheelchair accessible
Parking nearby
Angel roof
Grade I

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There has been a church on this site since the 13th century. The tower has doorways on the north, south and east sides although the south doorway has been partially filled in to form a window for the vestry. The doors were likely used in a processional way. Unusually there is no west door. The hammerbeam roof has large effigies of angels which hover over the nave. Thistles and ivy are carved onto the corbels. Notice the old pew ends: they have no poppyheads and the carvings are in a recess under the straight top. Some of the figures, all in human form, have been deliberately defaced. Their identity remains a mystery. Don't miss the elephant with a howdah on its back and the bear with a staff. A brass inscription on the floor near the font commemorates Edmund de Illeye who died of the plague in 1349. The inscription is in French. Other items of interest include the Jacobean pulpit, the beautifully carved 14th century rood screen and the angle piscina.

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