Listed Building record MDO15365 - Church of St Andrew, Malmesbury Park, Bournemouth

Towerless church of rock-faced Purbeck stone with stone dressings. The Chancel and transepts built 1891-2 and the nave added 1899-1900, by J A Chatwin and Son of Birmingham and S C Tugwell.

Chancel and transepts 1891-2, nave 1899-1900, of J A Chatwin and Son of Birmingham and S C Tugwell. Rock-faced Purbeck stone with stone dressings, towerless. Nave with tall polygonal western apse to baptistery, south porch in aisleless western bay, clerestory with paired 2-light windows, 2-bay transepts with transverse gables. Plate tracery in chancel with stepped triplet of trefoiled lancets for east window. Decorated tracery elsewhere. Interior of chancel stone-faced, with relieving arch and dog-tooth ornament to eastern lancets, chancel arch on foliage corbels, arch-braced roof. Remainder faced with buff brick dressed in red brick and stone. 2-bay aisle, 2-bay transept arcade (no crossing, octagonal piers, red brick voussoirs. King-post roof on short hammerbeams on clustered wall-shafts. Arch to baptistry with no capitals (marble angel statue on corbel to each aide); circular font on 5 columns, carved medallions.

Department of the Environment, 15-Feb-1994, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Borough of Bournemouth amendment 1994 (Scheduling record). SWX4461.

Pevsner N and Lloyd D, 1973, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight (1973), 121 (Monograph). SWX3500.

"rock-faced outside with a tall apsidal baptistery; disappointing interior of white brick with red brick dressings"

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Mar 15 2013 2:42PM