Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a Grade II* listed building located in Foston. The church features a 12th-century nave, an early 13th-century chancel, and a late 14th-century west tower. It is constructed of ashlar stone with roughcast on the nave and chancel, topped by a graduated slate roof. The west tower consists of three stages, with a moulded plinth, string courses, and diagonal buttresses. It has 2-light belfry openings adorned with cusped tracery beneath pointed heads and hood-moulds, and is capped with a battlemented parapet.

The west door is boarded and set in a pointed opening with continuous hollow mouldings. The west window has three lights with 20th-century replacement mullions, cusped tracery, and a pointed head under a hood-mould. The nave features a three-light square-headed window with Perpendicular tracery to the west, while the other windows are round-headed in the centre and east. The clerestory includes 2-light windows with Perpendicular tracery under elliptical heads. The south door has a continuous chamfer and a pointed head, and the chancel has a 2-light pointed window to the west with Geometrical tracery, along with square-headed windows featuring Perpendicular tracery. There is a pointed priest's door with continuous chamfer, and the east window has four lights with Perpendicular tracery under a pointed head and hood-mould, with plain close verges.

Inside, the late 14th-century tower arch consists of three hollow-chamfered orders with scalloped capitals cut back to the east. The early 13th-century north nave arcade is supported by circular piers and abaci, featuring double-chamfered pointed arches. In the chancel, there are three 13th-century sedilia, with the easternmost cut away by a 15th-century window, all having pointed chamfered heads and filleted hood-moulds. The nave also contains a 12th-century tub font and a defaced effigy of a knight with crossed legs at the west end.