Parish Church Of St Andrew

The Parish Church of St Andrew is a parish church dating back to the 12th century, with substantial additions and alterations in the 13th and 14th centuries. The west tower and spire were rebuilt in 1850. The building is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar detailing, and has plain tile, slate, and lead roofs. It consists of a west tower and spire, a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a south porch, and a chancel.

The two-stage west tower features a chamfered string course, an embattled parapet, and a set-back spire with a single tier of gabled lucarnes. The belfry stage has two-light louvered openings with trefoil heads to the lights, quatrefoils, and wave moulded pointed surrounds. The ground stage has single 19th-century lancets on each wall. The north aisle has two broad, blocked triangular arches, one containing an ogee-headed doorway, and the other a 14th-century panel-traceried window. The clerestory has three large, three-light 15th-century windows with four-centred arched heads and triangular, hollow-chamfered surrounds. A further two-light 14th-century panel-traceried window is in the east wall of the nave. The 19th-century chancel east window is composed of three pointed lights within a four-centred arched surround; a segmental-headed priest’s door is on the south side. The 14th-century south aisle features stepped and gabled buttresses. The east window is of two lights with cusped Y tracery, trefoils, and quatrefoils. To the south are a matching window and a plain Y-traceried two-light window. The gabled south porch has a segmental arched outer doorway with a hollow-chamfered head, built-in side benches, and a pointed inner doorway with a moulded hood dying into the reveals.

Inside, the two-bay 12th-century north nave arcade features round piers and responds with double-chamfered round arches on annular capitals. The three-bay 13th-century south arcade has octagonal piers and responds, with continuously moulded double-chamfered arches. The broad 13th-century double-chamfered chancel arch has annular responds, reset in the 19th century. The south arch is unusually rib vaulted, with chamfered ribs springing from annular capitals and meeting in figured bosses. At the east end is a 14th-century niche with a trefoil head and crocketed canopy. Aumbry in the south wall of the chancel contains a reset 14th-century octagonal pillar support. Fittings include a good set of 14th-century poppyhead benchends with blank cusped tracery, and a large, plain 14th-century octagonal font with stop chamfers to the square base.