Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a Grade II* listed building, featuring Romanesque architecture with primarily 13th-century characteristics. It underwent extensive restoration by C. Hodgson Fowler in 1907, during which a bellcote, porch, and vestry were added. The church is constructed of snecked rubble and has a 20th-century Welsh slate roof. It consists of an aisleless nave and a continuous chancel, with a south porch and a north vestry.

The chancel has two bays, featuring a pointed-arched priest's door and a trefoiled low-side window on the south wall. There is a plate-tracery window on the north wall to the east of the vestry, along with another trefoiled low-side window to the west. The east end is buttressed and displays three stepped lancets set in hollow-chamfered reveals. The nave has four bays, with pilaster-buttressed divisions and tall lancets beneath hoodmoulds, each with trefoiled rear-arches. Notable sculptured fragments incorporated into the masonry include part of a Saxon cross-shaft and a 17th-century sundial.

The south door, located within the porch, is framed by a roll-moulded pointed arch of two orders, though the shafts are missing. The north wall features a chamfered plinth and a late Romanesque doorway of three orders, adorned with chevron patterns and worn scalloped capitals, with missing shafts. The west end has a single tall lancet and a bellcote above.

Inside, the church has been gutted and plastered. The nave features a panelled ceiling, while the chancel has a shallow wagon roof and a minimal wooden chancel screen. A recumbent alabaster effigy of Sir William Bowes, who died in 1420, is depicted in armour on a decorated chest tomb, now positioned against a four-centred recess that may have been intended for an Easter sepulchre. There is also a mutilated female effigy in front of a low arch in the north wall, along with an aumbry and a trefoiled piscina in the south wall of the chancel. The church contains a late medieval round font with a floral border on a replaced stem, and relief Roman numerals on the north wall, believed to be remnants of a ray sundial.