Church of Saint Andrew, High Ham
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| Location | High Ham, Somerset, England |
| Coordinates | 51°04′35″N 2°49′18″W / 51.07639°N 2.82167°WCoordinates: 51°04′35″N 2°49′18″W / 51.07639°N 2.82167°W |
| Built | 1476 |
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Listed Building – Grade I
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| Designated | 17 April 1959 |
| Reference no. | 263091 |
 Location of Church of Saint Andrew in Somerset
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The Church of Saint Andrew is an Anglican parish church located on Turnhill Road, in High Ham, Somerset, England. It shows evidence of 12th- and 14th-century building and was largely rebuilt in 1476. On 17 April 1959, it was designated as a Grade I listed building.
The church is built in the Perpendicular style. The date 1474 is recorded in an inscription on the tomb of the rector who re-built it. The rebuilding of the church in 1476 took about one year, and was performed under John Selwood, then Abbot of Glaston, who was also the patron and donor of the rectory. The rector John Dyer built the present chancel in 1476.
The rector Adrian Schall wrote a memoir about the church in 1598. Some 19th-century restoration work was done by John Norton.
The design is a four-cell plan with a three-bay chancel, and five-bay nave. There are north and south aisles, a south porch, and a west tower. Building materials include local lias stone and hamstone. The main roofs are composed of Welsh slate with moulded coped gables, battlemented parapets. The aisle and porch roofs are of sheet lead.
The tower dates from the early 14th century, and is in three stages. It is squat with triple plinth bands, parapets, corner gargoyles, angled and straight buttresses.
The chancel was built in 1499. It has a double plinth course, gargoyles, parapets, coped gables, and angled buttresses. Each buttress had an east window of five-light panes; the north and south sections had three-light windows. The chancel was built with a moulded king post truss roof and many rosettes, angels and other carvings. The wide panelled chancel arch has a well preserved Devon-style timber screen.
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