Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a building of probable early 15th-century and late 15th-century origin, with alterations from the early 17th century. It is constructed from sandstone rubble with a stone slate roof. The church comprises a west tower, a nave and chancel under a continuous roof, a clerestory, north and south aisles, and a south porch.

The five-stage west tower has angle buttresses and a solid parapet. The west door has a pointed head with jambs of two hollow-chamfered orders. The west window has three cusped lights with panel tracery, and above it are two niches, formerly containing statues, featuring projecting decorated heads. A one-light chamfered window sits between the niches. The bell openings, likely dating to the early 15th century, have pointed heads and hoods, each with two cusped lights. The nave and clerestory windows, probably late 15th century, have flat heads, mullions, and cusped lights. An exception is the second window from the east on the south wall, which resembles the tower's bell openings and has a hood with head stops. A blocked priest’s door to the left of this window has a hollow-chamfered segmental head. The east wall was rebuilt in 1866 and now contains a window of five cusped lights with tracery. The south porch has a chamfered doorway with a two-centred head and an inner hollow-chamfered doorway. The north doorway is hollow-chamfered with a segmental head and a false keystone incorporating a carved head. The north aisle has buttresses with moulded offsets.

Inside, the arcades are arranged with six bays to the south and five to the north, featuring octagonal piers with moulded capitals and pointed arches formed of two chamfered orders. A piscina with a moulded cusped two-centred head is located towards the east end of the south aisle wall. The open timber roof is likely from the early 17th century and features short king posts braced to the ridge, rising from arch-braced collars. Both nave and aisles have cusped wind braces, with the aisle principals having ovolo mouldings and some carved decoration near the aisle walls, including heads. The church is notable for the quantity of good early woodwork, including 17th and 18th century pews, among them box pews. A late 18th century three-decker pulpit incorporates raised and fielded panels, a stair with slim turned balusters, and a sounding board with a carved entablature. A rood screen, believed to date from the 1630s or possibly later, has tapering square uprights with capitals, decorated arched openwork heads, an openwork frieze, and a dentilled cornice. To the east of the rood, the east aisle bay on each side is separated from the chancel by a screen with narrow mullions and thin heads of panel tracery. A further wooden screen with cyma-moulded mullions divides the south aisle towards the east.