Church of St Andrew

Parish church of Mid 14th to 15th century date, perhaps incorporating material from a former church. The building was burnt during the siege of Hull in 1643. Repairs were carried out in 1663 and around 1700. Major restorations took place in 1879, including reseating and reroofing, with further restorations around 1890. The church was built on a new site after the destruction of the former church by the Humber in 1355.

The church is constructed of random beach cobbles, limestone rubble, squared masonry and bricks to the nave and transepts; roughly-coursed limestone rubble to the tower; limestone ashlar to the chancel; and rendered masonry to the vestry. Limestone ashlar dressings are used throughout, with slate roofs.

The plan is cruciform: a four-bay aisled nave with north and south doors, slightly projecting transepts, a three-bay chancel with vestry adjoining to the north side, and a tower above the crossing.

The nave features diagonal buttresses and buttresses between bays to the north, with a single buttress to the south, all with offsets. The north door is pointed with a single order, while the more ornate south door has two orders, both with wave mouldings and hoodmoulds. Partly-restored segmental-headed two-light traceried windows are set in the north and south walls. The west side has buttresses flanking a large partly-restored five-light traceried window with brattished transom and hoodmould.

The transepts have buttresses on their north and south sides flanking pointed three-light traceried windows with cinquefoiled lights and hoodmoulds. A projecting spout for a piscina projects from the south transept.

The chancel has a moulded plinth, angle buttresses and buttresses between bays with offsets. A pointed south door features a hollow chamfer and wave mouldings. Pointed three-light windows to north and south have trefoiled lights with tracery similar to the transepts but less ornate. A large partly-restored pointed five-light east window has a hoodmould, head stops, and tracery similar to the west window, but with a narrower plain transom. The lean-to vestry has a 19th-century segmental-headed two-light traceried window. All windows feature Perpendicular tracery. Coped parapets and gables with cross finials appear throughout.

The three-stage tower has quoins and moulded string courses between stepped-in stages. The first stage has a 19th-century square-headed door to the west cutting the string course. The second stage has narrow slit windows to the north, south and east. The third stage has pointed two-light belfry openings with foiled Y-tracery. A moulded string course and coped embattled parapet complete the tower.

The interior contains tall nave arcades of pointed arches with wave mouldings, plain and hollow chamfers, rising on octagonal piers and responds with plain moulded capitals and bases on tall pedestals. The piers and arches bear traces of red paint; the second pier from the north-west bears traces of painted inscriptions, one dated 1657. Pointed double-chamfered arches rise from the nave aisles to the transepts. The crossing piers have partly-restored octagonal responds with plain moulded capitals and bases, carrying tall pointed arches to the nave, chancel and transepts with plain and hollow chamfers; the outer chamfers beneath the tower intersect above the springing. A pointed trefoiled piscina in the south transept has a restored bowl, hoodmould and head stops. A pointed chamfered piscina in the north transept has a restored bowl. The chancel has a pointed wave-moulded north door and a mutilated stone lectern on the north wall. The roofs and tiled floors date from the 19th century.

Monuments include a 15th-century ashlar floorslab at the west end of the north aisle with a Gothic marginal inscription. A black marble floorslab at the west end of the central nave aisle commemorates Dorothy Robinson of Newton Garth, dated 1676, and bears a roundel containing a full achievement in relief. A marble and ashlar chest tomb in the south aisle commemorates Barbara Locke of 1792, contained within a railed enclosure with a moulded ashlar plinth, wrought-iron column balusters, cone finials and urn finials to the principals above a single top rail. A painted pedimented wooden board above records an 1825 bequest of Thomas Locke.

Marble wall tablets in the chancel commemorate Hugh Blaydes and others, dated 1759, with arms and palm fronds in relief; Ann Carvile of 1797 with a miniature coloured hatchment by E Giffin of London; and James Stovin of 1797 with an open book and painted arms above, also by Giffin. A plain ashlar tablet in the north transept commemorates John Ombler of 1805. An oval tablet in the north aisle commemorates Cornelius Stovin of 1799, with reset ashlar tablets below featuring a roughly-carved finial and crowned angel with shield, probably of 15th-century date.

Fragments of medieval glass survive in the east window, chiefly a canopy above a figure to the left. A 19th-century octagonal font is present in the church.