Church Of St Andrew And Boundary Wall

Church of St Andrew and Boundary Wall

Parish church and attached boundary wall. Built 1869–71 to designs by William Knight, with a baptistry added at the west end in 1884 by SR Stevenson. The building is constructed of rockfaced stone with limestone and blue lias dressings and slate roofs with coped gables, in the Gothic Revival style.

The church has a cruciform plan comprising a chancel, side chapels, vestry, crossing tower, transepts, nave with aisles, a western baptistry, and porches.

The chancel is two bays with a three-light east window and two lancets on each side. A vestry stands to the north and a chapel to the south, both hipped, with east doors and three windows each. The transepts have two lancets and a round window above, with a door to the south transept. The crossing tower is square in two stages, with large single bell openings with shafts and tourelles topped with arcaded turrets and spires. A squat broach spire with two tiers of lucarnes rises above.

The nave clerestory has four two-light windows on each side. The west end features three lancets with a wheel window and niche above. The adjoining baptistry has buttress walls, a traceried parapet, and four squat lancets. The aisles contain six lancets and single lancets at the west ends.

The north porch is flat-roofed with two windows. The south porch is gabled with double shafts and a triple niche above the door.

The interior is rendered with moulded sill bands to the clerestory. The chancel has a double rebated arch on imposts and a pointed wooden barrel vault. The east end features panelled wainscotting, a canopied ashral reredos with figures, and a nineteenth-century stained glass window. Pointed arches with screens flank each side. The south side contains double sedilia and a bishop's throne under canopies, and two stained glass windows.

The crossing has an elaborate traceried wooden screen and crest to the north and a Perpendicular style organ case to the south.

The nave has an arch-braced common rafter roof with collars and four-bay arcades with round piers and moulded arches. The west end has two chamfered arches with a paired round central pier (dated 1896) and four stained glass windows above.

The western baptistry contains four stained glass windows to the west (late nineteenth century) and single stained glass windows to the north and south.

The north aisle has east and west arches, the east one with a traceried wooden screen to the chapel, and a reset traceried screen to the west. Six stained glass windows (late nineteenth and early twentieth century) are present. The north-east chapel has a pointed wooden barrel vault, wooden piscina, reredos, altar rail, and screen to the chancel (circa 1920).

The south aisle contains similar stained glass windows and screens to the north aisle with doors at each end. The south-east chapel, now used as a Sunday school, has an inserted ceiling.

Memorials include an elaborate alabaster war memorial tablet (circa 1920) with figures and niches. Fittings comprise an octagonal panelled font with ringed shafts, a semicircular traceried ashlar pulpit, traceried panelled stalls and desks, and original panelled benches.

The attached boundary wall encloses the church and vicarage on the east, south, and west sides. It is constructed of rockfaced stone with chamfered ashlar coping. A gateway to the south has a wrought-iron lamp bracket, and a pair of gate piers stands on Chestnut Grove.