Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a church dating from 1911 in Langley Mill. It is constructed of coursed rubble with rubble and ashlar dressings, featuring green slate roofs with stone ridge tiles and ridge crosses, and incorporating rubble eaves bands. The church consists of a six-bay nave with a south aisle and north porch, a crossing tower, transept bays, and a chancel. The west wall of the nave has three stepped lancet windows, above which is a semi-circular niche. The north elevation of the nave has five tall lancets, with rounded rubble buttresses between. A gabled porch is located in the second bay from the west, featuring a deeply splayed, shallow pointed doorcase flanked by diagonal rubble buttresses with pinnacled tops, and small lancets to each side. The south aisle is a long outshut with similar buttresses and six triple lancet windows. The transept bays are gabled with corner buttresses having pinnacled tops. The north transept has two lancets and a pointed doorcase to the north, with a central lancet above in the gable. The south transept has a porch with a pointed doorcase to the east and three large stepped lancets to the south. The crossing tower has diagonal rubble buttresses, with a circular staircase tower on the north-east corner, featuring a pointed doorcase, slit windows, and a belled conical roof. The tower has semicircular windows and clock faces in ashlar surrounds. The bell stage has curved lancets on all sides, with the east and west sides now blocked with clockfaces. The chancel has lancet side windows and three stepped lancets to the east, flanked by buttresses. A datestone at the base reads ‘April XXIX MDCCCCXI’. All windows have chamfered ashlar inner moulding and rubble outer moulding. Inside, the nave has six rubble transverse arches, continuing to the floor on the north side and supported by a six-bay arcade to the south, featuring pointed rubble arches on short ashlar columns with large scalloped capitals and bases. The aisle has shallow transverse arches, and a pointed arch leads into the transept. A double chamfered rubble tower arch is present on ashlar double half shafts with scalloped capitals, with small squinches supporting tower buttresses. The tower interior features a ribbed groin vault. The nave and chancel have double purlin roofs with boarded ceilings. East, west, and south aisle windows have Neo-Norman colonnettes with scalloped capitals. A Neo-Norman circular stone font is in the aisle, alongside triple sedilia and a piscina to the chancel, all of a similar style. The church also includes a Gothic style timber pulpit, a timber screen into the south transept bay from the crossing, choir stalls, a painted reredos, turned baluster altar rails, and stained glass windows to some northern windows and the east window.