Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a church begun in the late 19th century, between 1889 and 1891, by Douglas and Fordham. Construction was completed between 1907 and 1909 by Douglas and Minshull. The church is built of snecked stone with ashlar dressings, and has a slate roof. It comprises a nave with aisles, a crossing, north and south transepts and a chancel. The nave has five bays, with aisles having 3-light windows with Perpendicular tracery between large buttresses; the clerestory has 3-light straight-headed windows. North and south gable porches have raking lateral buttresses. The west end features a 4-light window with flanking gabled buttresses and a consecration stone. The crossing has coped gables to north and south. The church has an unusual spire, covered in slate, which is set diagonally, with slate pinnacles flanking louvred bell-openings. The transepts have deep buttresses; the south transept has a 4-light window with a shield in the tracery, and paired 2-light windows to the east, while the north transept has paired 2-light windows with a 4-light window above. The chancel has an embattled parapet with tracery panels, paired 3-light north and south windows, and a 5-light east window with flanking statues in niches and a satin inscription above and below; the gable has a statue in a niche. A north-west octagonal stair turret is also present.

Inside, the nave has five bays supported on octagonal piers, with a waggon roof incorporating wall shafts. There is an octagonal font with tracery panels and a timber cover with crocketed pinnacles. The west wall has panelling with coving. The crossing has choir stalls and a low west wall. A north organ loft stands above the vestry. A south chapel features parclose screens. Choir and sanctuary arches are corbelled. The reredos, dated 1911 and the work of G. Webb, includes canopied figures. Sedilia and a piscina are located to the south. Good glass is found in the north aisle, chapel and chancel, designed by H. Bryams and influenced by Kempe.