Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a parish church largely dating to the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries, with a tower built in 1714 and restoration work undertaken in 1770 and 1879. It is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings, coursed limestone rubble, and ashlar, roofed with slate and lead. The church comprises a western tower, a clerestoried nave, aisles, a chancel, and a south porch.

The brick tower has two stages with quoins, a plinth, chamfered offsets, and a plain ashlar parapet with angle obelisks. Single louvred openings to the belfry stage have segmental brick heads with keystones. A blocked door is visible on the west side, now containing a 19th-century window of three lights. The north aisle was rebuilt in the 19th century using squared rubble, with brick end walls containing single 3-light windows with intersecting tracery dating to the 13th century. A single chamfered 13th-century door and three 2-light rectangular windows with cusped heads are also present. The 15th-century clerestory has four 2-light windows with triangular cusped heads. Two rainwater hoppers are dated 1770. A circular stair turret, also from the 15th century, is set into the north-east angle of the nave, with a pointed roof added in the 19th century. The 14th-century chancel is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and contains a blocked priest’s door, two three-light windows, rectangular surrounds, and trefoil heads. An east window was added in the 19th century. An ogee gable on the east gable of the nave indicates the former location of a missing crucifix. On the south side of the chancel are two three-light windows with moulded surrounds and cambered heads. The south aisle has two single 3-light windows of the late 13th century with intersecting tracery at each end. Three 14th-century rectangular surrounds and hoods now contain 2-light 19th-century reticulated windows. The clerestory mirrors that on the north side, and the parapet features two reused 14th-century chimneys with fleurons. A lead rainwater hopper is dated 1715 and bears the initials PPG. A gabled 19th-century south porch has a continuously moulded outer door and an inner doorway with a 13th-century pointed and chamfered head.

Inside, the 4-bay nave arcades feature demi-shaft west responds, one with foliage, octagonal piers and capitals, and double-chamfered 13th-century arches. A 19th-century double tower arch is also present. The reset 14th-century chancel arch has hollow chamfered responds and arch, with engaged octagonal capitals. A 15th-century triangular-headed panelled door to the turret stair is located north of the chancel arch. In the chancel, a reset 12th-century piscina with a scalloped base and a 19th-century aumbry with a brattished top are found. A fine 15th-century chancel screen has panel traceried bays with cusped and crocketed ogee arches, featuring Alpha and Omega over the centre. A 15th-century panelled pulpit sits on a 19th-century base, with a moulded cornice and shields to the ribs. The font has a 13th-century clustered columned base and a 19th-century battered octagonal bowl with a contemporary lid.