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82 Durrington and Durnford Churches. 
At the cross roads near the entrance to the churchyard are the 
remains of a village cross of some importance, consisting of the four 
steps, base, and part of the stem of the cross. 
Tue CHurRcH or S. ANDREW, DURNFORD. 
emm HIS CHURCH consists of nave with north and south 
porches, chancel, and western tower. It has always 
been obvious that this was an exceptionally interesting structure, 
but the works of repair which have been in progress since Sep- 
tember, 1903, have revealed additional points of interest. 
The north and south walls of the nave were divided into four 
bays externally, and flanked by flat pilaster-like buttresses, about 
2 feet 5 inches wide, and 5 inches in projection, carried nearly the 
full height of the walls and terminated by a weathering; the 
easternmost bay of the north wall, with parts of its buttresses on 
either side was destroyed in the 15th (or early 16th) century, when 
the rood-loft stair-turret was added and a window inserted, and 
the wall of the westernmost bay shared the like fate at a later 
period, probably early in the 18th century, when it was re-built 
and a wooden-framed window inserted to light the gallery. On 
the south side the easternmost bay of the wall was re-built and 
the end buttress reduced in height in 1781, which date has been eut 
on the wall. The buttress dividing this bay from the one westward 
of it was extended in projection, probably in the 14th century, and 
for the purpose of giving additional support to the wall, which 
was at that time much out of the vertical. The other buttresses 
remain intact, and much of what looks like the original rough-cast 
plaster is still preserved on the external face of the walls. It is 
worthy of note that there were infernal quoins of squared stones 
at the angles of the nave, also that in the west wall, forming part 
of the tower, the tie-beam and strut of a former roof-truss is im- 
bedded, the tower having been erected on the early wall. The 
south doorway of the nave has a square lintel under a semicircular 

