Church Of St Andrew

Church of St Andrew

Parish church built in 1869, designed by JB Mitchell-Withers. The choir vestry was added in 1913, the baptistry in 1920, and the building underwent restoration in 1955. The church is constructed in coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and steep pitched slate roofs, executed in 13th-century Gothic Revival style.

The plan comprises a chancel with side chapels, clergy and choir vestries, a north-east tower with spire, transepts, a north porch, and a nave with clerestory and aisles.

The exterior features a chamfered plinth and sillband, coped gables, and angle buttresses. Pointed arch windows occur throughout the building. The chancel has a 5-light window to the east with single shafts, and to the south a 2-light window. The hipped south chapel contains 2 lancets to the east. The smaller north chapel has a wheel window to the east. The clergy vestry has a truncated 2-light window to the north with plate tracery and a small 2-light window to the east. The choir vestry to the south-east, in Perpendicular style, features a south porch flanked to the left by 2 single lancets and to the east a transomed 3-light window.

The north-east tower rises in 2 stages with short angle buttresses and string courses. The first stage has to the east a shouldered doorway with single shafts beneath a crocketed gable, and a clock to the north and east. The second stage has corner shafts and corbel table. On 3 sides, a chamfered lancet opening with shafts contains a 2-light bell opening with central shaft. The octagonal broach spire has a single tier of gabled lucarnes with double lancets.

The transepts have 4-light plate traceried windows in the gables. The south transept has single lancets to the east and west and a flat-roofed porch to the south-east. The north transept has a single lancet to the west only. The nave clerestory has 4 round windows on each side with plate tracery. The west end has additional 20th-century buttresses and a 4-light window with plate tracery, below which are 2 flat-headed windows to the baptistry. The 4-bay aisles have 2-light windows and similar windows in their west ends. The north aisle has a cross-gabled porch in the third bay with double chamfered doorway with shafts and a 2-light window in each side.

Interior features include a chancel with double chamfered arch with hoodmould and triple shaft imposts. A Perpendicular style screen with cross is present. The arch braced principal rafter roof features traceried spandrels, wall shafts and corbels, all painted. On either side is a single arch with wall paintings. The nave and transepts have arch braced roofs with wall shafts. The transepts contain arches with wheel windows above, and on their east sides arches and single doors. The north arch contains a Perpendicular glazed screen; the south arch contains the organ. Both have stained glass windows dating to around 1871. The nave has 4-bay arcades with round piers and ringed minor shafts, stiff-leaf capitals and keel moulded arches with hoodmoulds. The clerestory has a sillband and linked hoodmoulds. The west end has a segment-headed baptistry recess. The aisles have segmental eastern arches, lean-to roofs and stained glass windows dating to the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Fittings include chancel windows by Powell Bros. of Leeds, a 19th-century D-shaped alabaster pulpit, a round alabaster font with marble shafts, and traceried stalls with poppyheads. The baptistry was erected as a war memorial in 1920.