Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a church dating from 1890-91, designed by Thomas and Francis Healey. It is constructed of hammer-dressed sandstone with a slate roof. The church comprises a nave with a south-west bell-turret, a south aisle, a south transept coupled with a vestry, and a chancel, all executed in an Arts and Crafts Perpendicular style. The four-bay nave features an octagonal bell-turret with a wooden traceried bellcote and an ogival cap. The west gable has two transomed, three-light windows with tracery, and a coved niche in a rectangular surround above and between the windows. A moulded sill band and hoodmoulds to the windows run out and are carried round as string courses. The first bay of the aisle includes a gable porch with diagonal buttresses and a two-centred arched doorway moulded in two orders. Above the doorway is a square-headed window of two cusped lights with ogival tracery, a carved apex cross, and two single-light windows on the side wall, similar to that in the gable. The nave has four irregularly disposed windows of two, two, three, and two lights, with cusped lights except for the last, which has ogee tracery. Three clerestory windows, each with three low round-arched lights, are also present. The coupled gables of the transept and vestry each have a wide four-light window with elaborate Perpendicular-style tracery. The chancel has two two-light windows above the string course, with ogee tracery, and a large seven-light east window with Perpendicular-style tracery. The north side of the nave contains three large three-light windows in Perpendicular style, the outer two with transoms, a small single-light window to the west of these, and a two-light window to the east.

Inside, the church has arch-braced king-post roof trusses; those in the chancel have Perpendicular-traceried open work panels. The four-bay aisle arcade features octagonal columns and two-centred double-chamfered arches, with a similar chancel arch. A foundation stone is set into the right-hand side, dated 1890 in Roman numerals. A low chancel screen and integral sandstone pulpit incorporate traceried panels and a statue. A raised inscription at the right-hand end of the screen commemorates Major General W. N. Crompton-Stansfield, Lord of the Manor of Yeadon (died 1888), and his wife (died 1890), and was erected in 1891.