Church Of St. Andrew

The Church of St. Andrew is a Grade II* listed building located on Front Street in Middleton. It features an early 13th-century chancel and nave arcades, with the rest of the structure rebuilt in 1873 by S.M. Teale, who incorporated some of the original masonry. The church is constructed of ashlar stone and has slate roofs.

The west tower consists of three stages, with angle buttresses on the lower stages and pilaster buttresses with nook shafts on the belfry. It has a chamfered plinth and string courses, double trefoil-headed lancets with hoodmoulds on the second stage, and a 2-light pointed opening with Geometrical style tracery in the belfry. A frieze of blank quatrefoils runs beneath the corbel-table leading to a coped parapet topped with a pyramidal roof and cross finial. The nave features a chamfered plinth and buttresses with offsets, along with three 2-light square-headed windows with Perpendicular style tracery. The south door, designed in the style of the 1180s, includes re-used nook shafts and 19th-century waterleaf capitals supporting a pointed roll-moulded arch under a hoodmould with face-stops.

The chancel has a chamfered plinth and angle buttresses with two offsets, featuring four lancets on each side. The east wall has dwarf buttresses, and the east window consists of three stepped lancets under a single pointed arch, with the imposts extending as a chamfered string.

Inside, the church has 13th-century north and south arcades supported by round piers, including one octagonal pier in the south arcade, which hold round capitals beneath pointed double-chamfered arches. The chancel contains three sedilia with pointed chamfered heads on detached shafts with round capitals and bases. A Bronze Age beaker, discovered locally, is preserved in a special niche in the north respond of the chancel arch. Additionally, there is a 12th-century tub font featuring a stylised palm design and intersecting round arcading, resting on attached colonettes with nail-head decoration on the capitals.