Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a parish church with significant development across several centuries, including elements from the 11th, 12th, 14th centuries, and renovations around 1866 by James Fowler and in 1902. It is constructed primarily of greenstone rubble with limestone ashlar and red brick detailing. The roofs are slate, featuring stone coped gables with cross finials, and a gabled 19th-century bellcote with a round-headed bell opening, moulded head, imposts, and bell.

The church comprises a west porch, a nave with a west bellcote and a south porch converted into a vestry, and a chancel. The gabled west porch, dating to 1902, features a round-headed doorway with a moulded head, hood mould, and label stops, flanked by single shafts with ornate waterleaf capitals. A plaque dated 1902, inscribed with the names of the rector and church wardens, is set into the south wall. Two weathered, carved 11th-century fragments are reset in the north wall. The porch interior has a 19th-century round-headed doorway with keeled rolls, a hood mould, label stops, single shafts with ornate capitals, and double plank doors. Above the porch is a 19th-century wheel window with trefoil-headed openings separated by shafts with moulded bases and ornate capitals, surmounted by a small oculus.

The north side of the 11th-century nave retains a blocked 11th-century doorway with a round-headed tympanum, two voussoirs to the east, and plain rectangular jambs. A 14th-century window to the east has a flattened triangular head, three cusped, pointed lights, and mullions, partially restored in the 19th century. The north side of the chancel is plain. The east end of the chancel has two-stage angle buttresses and incorporates a large keystone from a medieval rib vault, reset below a 19th-century window of three narrow round-headed lights, the central one being taller and sharing a continuous hood mould. A fragment of 12th-century moulding, including a band of dogtooth, is reset above this window. The south side of the chancel features a 19th-century rectangular window with a chamfered surround and a medieval sill. The south side of the nave displays a 19th-century window with a flattened triangular head and three pointed cusped lights, and a round-headed slit light made up of four large stones to the west. A gabled 19th-century porch on the east side has its south wall blocked with 20th-century red brick and a small round-headed light inserted. Another 19th-century rectangular window with a chamfered surround is on the east side of the porch. A blocked 11th-century south doorway is visible within the porch, with a round voussoired head, plain tympanum, chamfered imposts, and rectangular jambs. The interior doorway is visible with a 19th-century round voussoired head and reused 11th-century masonry. The north wall of the nave interior has an 11th-century voussoired round head of a blocked doorway. The 11th-century chancel arch was restored in the 19th century, featuring a round voussoired head, chamfered imposts with scored line decoration, and rectangular jambs. A moulded string course runs from just below impost level to the north wall, with a broad, blocked round-headed recess below. The chancel contains a 14th-century bear-head reset on the north wall. The east window has nook shafts, ornate waterleaf capitals, a hood mould, and ornate label stops. A 19th-century stone altar is supported on two large round shafts with cushion capitals. The interior also features 19th-century pews, roofs, a brass lectern, a pulpit on an ashlar base, a font with an octagonal bowl supported on a cluster of four shafts, and an ornate wooden hood. The building retains stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.