Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a church dating from 1876-7, with a tower added in 1931. It was designed by J G Holt of Manchester and is constructed of rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs, featuring ashlar coped gables. The church comprises an original chancel, nave, north aisle, and south porch, with a tower added above the chancel and an organ chamber and vestry added to either side. It has a chamfered plinth and a continuous sill band.

The west front features a large four-light pointed arch window with lattice tracery and a small roundel above. The north aisle’s west end has a slightly set-back narrower gable. Projecting from this gable is an octagonal bellcote with an open octagonal arcaded lantern, topped with an octagonal stone spire. Below the bellcote is a projecting doorway with a deeply set pointed arch, with a two-light window with geometrical tracery set deeper. The north aisle has three three-light pointed arch windows with geometric tracery. The projecting organ loft beyond features a single three-light window with perpendicular tracery.

The south side has a projecting gabled porch, with diagonal buttresses and a coped gable with kneelers and a finial. To the right of the porch are two pairs and a single two-light pointed arch windows with reticulated tracery. The projecting vestry to the east has a similar three-light window.

A massive square west tower has angle buttresses and an octagonal stair turret attached to the centre of the south face. The tower's east face features a large five-light pointed arch window with reticulated tracery, and above it, a small niche. The bell stage has three flat-headed louvred openings and a clock on each face. Stepped battlements with decorative arcading top the tower, culminating in a thin octagonal stone spire.

Inside, the nave is characterized by a four-bay arcade to the north, with double chamfered arches resting on cluster columns with stiffleaf capitals, and a single similar arch leading to the choir. The roof is a panelled wooden construction with curved arch trusses, while the chancel has a flat wooden roof. The interior features original wooden pews, an octagonal stone font with a wooden cover, an ornate octagonal wooden pulpit on a stone base, a fine wooden choir screen with a broad central arch and three narrower flanking arches, wooden choir stalls, an altar rail, and a reredos. The east bell tower houses a steel bell frame with brass bells and a reinforced concrete spire.