Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a parish church, largely dating from the 15th century, with a Victorian restoration of 1870 by Joseph Goddard of Leicester. It comprises a west tower, a nave, a north transept, and a chancel. The church is constructed of coursed ironstone rubble with limestone dressings and ashlar for the tower, covered by Welsh slate roofs.

The west tower is of the 15th century and has a plinth, angle buttresses, and four stages. It features a doorway with a chamfered arch and hood mould, paired traceried lights above it, and paired foiled two-tiered lights to the bell chamber, topped with an embattled parapet. The nave has several Perpendicular windows of 2 and 3 flat-headed foiled lights on its north and south sides, with one Victorian 2-light Decorated window possibly in a former doorway location. The east end of the nave and chancel are accentuated by ornate buttresses with gablets and corbel heads, and a corbel table of undecorated blocks, a plinth, string course, and cresting to the steeply pitched roof – all additions from 1870. The chancel itself contains 2-light north and south windows and a 3-light east window, all in the Decorated style. The north transept, dating from 1810, was given a large gothic window of 4 lights in 1870; it is rendered and has a low-pitched parapet roof and buttresses.

Inside, the west tower arch has cylindrical shafts, an outer chamfer, and a hood mould. A south-west window is contained within a recess. The church has a simple timber roof and a Victorian chancel arch with clustered and banded shafts with foliate capitals. A dividing wall between the nave and chancel is built of banded coursed rubble. The chancel roof is ornate, with principal rafters supported by heavily wrought corbels and an encaustic tiled floor. The north transept serves as a mausoleum, housing a memorial to Francis Edwards, who died in 1728, and other members of the Edwards family. This is a large marble tomb raised on four steps, featuring a pedestal base with chamfered corners and ornate volutes, supporting an obelisk adorned with shields of arms and surmounted by an urn. Further related urns on pedestals are located in the room's corners; the monument was originally located in the churchyard. The church also contains a Jacobean pulpit with long, blank, traceried panels and a font which may date from the 14th century, featuring a simple octagonal basin rising from an octagonal shaft with an 8-sided tapering wood cover. The tower displays the arms of George III, and stained glass is present in the chancel windows, dating from 1856 and 1866.