282 Durrington and Bumf or S 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. 



The Church of S. Andrew, Durnford. 



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 cut 

 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 internal 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 



