Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a parish church that is now redundant. It was rebuilt in 1769, as indicated by the date on the crossing arch, on a medieval hilltop site. The church underwent restoration and alterations in 1892, which is noted on a slab on the east wall. The structure is made of coursed rubble with cut quoins and dressings, topped with a slate roof. It has an equal-armed cruciform plan and features a gabled entrance porch on the south transept gable. The 19th-century studded double doors are set in a pointed arch, with single round-arched lights in the gable above the porch roof and in the side walls of the nave and both transepts. The north transept includes a projecting end stack and a studded door in a chamfered surround on the right. The west end of the nave has a pointed window beneath a plain arched bellcote with a pedimented top. The chancel features paired lancets in the side walls and 19th-century east windows designed in a 13th-century style, consisting of two lights below a quatrefoil. Below these is a dated slab with a cross, flanked by heads of early medieval slabs with expanded-arm crosses. All gables are coped with swept kneelers and various finials. Several 18th-century headstones are affixed to the exterior walls, including one to William Dixon of Shotley Field from 1767, which has a pedimented top, scrolled surround, and foliage decoration.

Inside, the church has chamfered segmental diagonal arches over the crossing, dated at the intersection. There is a 19th-century moulded credence table and a piscina that is corbelled out from the chancel window sills. Mural tablets are located on the east side of the south transept, commemorating Rev. Thomas Simpson from 1754 with a Latin inscription in a scrolled frame, and at the west end, there is a tablet for Christopher Hunter from 1757, described as "a learned and judicious Antiquary and Physician." The fittings are mostly from the late 19th century, including a panelled vestry screen across the north transept and a small chamfered 18th-century vestry fireplace. Stone benches are present in the porch.