Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a parish church dating to the mid-13th century, with a major restoration in 1848 by John Dobson. It is constructed of mid-13th century sandstone rubble with roughly-dressed quoins, mid-19th century dressed sandstone, and renewed Welsh slate roofs. The church comprises a south-west tower, a nave with a south aisle and south porch, and a chancel with a north vestry. The architectural style is transitional and Early English.

The tower, rebuilt in 1848, has a two-stage design: a buttressed square-plan base and an octagonal belfry topped with a spirelet of sandstone flags and a ball finial. The nave was largely rebuilt in 1848, featuring four bays with a chamfered plinth. The south aisle has two stepped buttresses and four lancet windows, each with its own hoodmould. The north wall retains medieval stonework, including three restored lancets and a blocked door at the west end. The mid-19th century west front incorporates two lancets and a vesica above, with a stepped clasping left buttress incorporating a pinnacle. The steeply pitched roof has coped gables with shaped kneelers.

The mid-13th century chancel is large for its size, featuring two lancets in each bay. It has a chamfered plinth and sill band with a 19th-century buttress division on the south wall. The left bay of the south wall contains a blocked priest's door under a shouldered lintel and a narrow round-headed window above with roll moulding. The east end is characterised by two stepped clasping buttresses, a low central buttress, and three stepped lancets. The low-pitched roof has coped gables with shaped kneelers. The south porch, dating to 1848, has a pointed arch of two orders with attached colonnettes. The north vestry, also from 1848, features an east door under a shouldered lintel.

Inside, the nave has a south aisle arcade of double-chamfered pointed arches with hoodmoulds and keeled responds. A cylindrical pier with an octagonal base and moulded circular cap divides the eastern bays. The second bay from the west is a section of solid wall, and the roof is arch-braced, dating to 1848. In the chancel, continuous roll moulding, matching the external sill band, is raised above the blocked priest's door. There is a pointed double-chamfered chancel arch from 1848, and a piscina in the south wall, featuring a cusped, trefoil-headed niche with chamfered arris, roll moulding, nutmeg ornament, and broken stops, with round rear-arches to the lancets. The chancel roof is a King-post roof from 1848.

Notable fittings include choir stalls with 17th-century carved poppyhead bench ends and a font, possibly 14th century and later re-cut, featuring a circular bowl on a cylindrical shaft with low relief depicting fighting dragons, tracery, and flower motifs around the rim.

Historic features include a fragment of a cross-head, possibly pre-Conquest; a large medieval grave cover with a foliated cross at the west end of the nave; three brasses in the floor; and an early 18th-century oval marble memorial tablet in a pedimented aedicule, dedicated to the parents of Peter Lancaster, Rector, located in the south wall of the chancel.