Church of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a church built in 1835 by Ignatius Bonomi of Durham, with a north extension added in 1877. It is constructed of dressed sandstone with a Welsh slate roof, and is in a Neo-Norman style. The church consists of a west tower and a nave with a rectangular recess at the east end for the altar. The tower has three stages, with angle buttresses to the lower two stages and string courses separating them, continuing from the imposts of the top-stage openings. It features a round-headed west doorway with simple mouldings, engaged columns, and cushion capitals; this design is repeated in the single middle-stage opening and the three upper-stage, two-light openings, which contain louvres. A corbelled string sits below a plain parapet. The nave, which has three bays, features window surrounds matching those of the west doorway, with sills and dripmoulds that continue as string courses. A south-east window contains medieval glass from the old Church of St Andrew. Further glass by A.S. Thomson & Co. of Leeds was installed in the south window in 1894. The interior features a timber barrel roof. A square Norman font, with a mid-19th-century base, has engaged colonnettes at the angles and scalloped capitals on cushion bases. Each side panel is carved with diaper or star ornamentation in varied forms, and the top edge is chamfered on the underside. The belfry contains one bell from the old Church of St Andrew.