Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a church with elements dating back to the 12th century and around 1500. It was restored in the 19th century and moved to its current location with alterations in 1952-3. The church is constructed from magnesian limestone blocks, now cladding an internal structure of modern common brick, and has a slate roof. It consists of a nave incorporating a west tower, a north porch, a south aisle (originally a north aisle), and a chancel with a south chapel.

The four-bay nave has a gabled porch on its north side, protecting a late 12th-century two-centred arched doorway with two orders of chamfer and colonnettes featuring waterleaf capitals, and a hood mould with nail-head decoration. A relocated former south doorway now occupies this position. To the left of the porch is a 19th-century arched two-light window, and to its left a 15th-century square-headed four-light window with ogee-traceried heads. To the right of the porch is a cusped lancet, and further right two small lancets at different levels, forming a stair turret to the tower. The tower has a round-headed west window on its lower stage, and its upper stage, which breaks through the nave, has square belfry louvres, a dripmould, and an embattled parapet. The chancel has two two-light windows and a three-light east window, all of similar design. The south aisle, originally the north aisle, has 19th-century windows of a similar style; a modern, flat-roofed vestry is attached to the east end and is not considered of special interest.

Inside, the round-headed tower arch has moulded imposts, and a 12th-century round-headed west window with a splayed reveal is found in the outer wall of the tower. The two-centred double-chamfered chancel arch has moulded capitals to the responds. Two arcades, a three-bay aisle arcade and a two-bay chapel arcade, feature octagonal columns with moulded capitals and two-centred double-chamfered arches. A tub font with reeded decoration, perhaps dating back to the 12th century, is present. Wall monuments include a fine carved cartouche to Eleanor Crowle (died 1765) in the south aisle, featuring an angel head on the apron, and a wall tablet to George Crowle (died 1744), within an aedicule with a broken pediment and apron, also ornamented with an angel head.