Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a building of mixed dates, incorporating a 14th-century chancel, a 15th-century west tower, and a nave rebuilt in 1817. The church is constructed of stone, with a stone slate roof to the chancel and a copper sheet roof to the nave.

The four-stage west tower is embattled, featuring diagonal buttresses to the west and angle buttresses to the east, and a moulded plinth. It has a low Perpendicular arched doorway with a hoodmould, and a 19th-century tracery window above. A small niche with moulded jambs and a roundheaded opening is situated above the window, with similar features on the north and south sides. The south side also includes six vertically arranged illumination slits relating to a staircase. Clockfaces are present on three sides of the tower, and the belfry windows are of three lights under low pointed arches, with a dripmould and gargoyles on three sides. Carvings of a woodcock and four-petalled flowers are on the west side, commemorating Seth Woodcock, who was Vicar of Leyland from 1488 to 1516.

The nave, dated 1817, is five bays long, buttressed, with an embattled parapet and five tall arched windows of three lights with intersecting tracery and a low transom. Galleries run along both sides of the nave, supported by slender iron columns with decorated triple cusp-headed panels.

Inside, a high tower arch reveals the line of the former nave roof, and there is a moulded two-centred chancel arch. The chancel features two arched three-light windows with intersecting tracery, a taller east window, and a low priest's door with a moulded arch and hoodmould. A 19th-century vestry is attached to the north side of the chancel. The south wall of the chancel contains triple sedilia under semi-circular arches with moulded labels, jambs, and sill; a piscina with two floriated bowls is included in the same design. A mass squint and aumbry are located in the north wall. Numerous wall tablets commemorating members of the Baldwin family, who served as vicars from 1748 to 1911, are present. A former Farington chapel in the southeast corner of the nave has memorial tablets and an 18th-century brass candelabra.