Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a parish church with elements dating from the 12th, 13th, 14th centuries, largely rebuilt in 1870-1 by Charles Kirk, except for the north transept. It is constructed of limestone ashlar with slate roofs. The building consists of a nave, bellcote, chancel, and north transept.

The west wall of the nave features a three-light window with cusped geometric tracery. A square bellcote with openwork sides and a crocketted pinnacle sits at the gable. The north nave wall contains three lancets with trefoil heads to the lights and wave moulded surrounds. The north transept's west wall has a blocked 13th-century arch. Otherwise, the transept exhibits stepped 14th-century setback buttresses with niches and crocketted ogee canopies. The north window of the transept is a three-light window with 19th-century geometric tracery. The east wall of the chancel has a three-light 14th-century window with cusped ogee heads to the lights and a pointed wave moulded surround. The chancel’s east window is a three-light 19th-century window with geometric tracery. The two windows on the south side of the nave mirror those on the north, and a 19th-century pointed moulded doorway is present, featuring angle shafts with annular capitals.

Inside, the chancel arch is pointed with engaged shafted reveals, annular capitals, and a double chamfered head. The sanctuary contains a plain stone side bench supported on stone brackets. A section of a large, reused 14th-century moulded octagonal pillar base with engaged shafts is located on the north side of the chancel. A chamfered four-centred arched doorway leads from the north wall of the chancel to the north transept. Fittings include a 19th-century circular tapering tub font. Fragments of 10th-century carvings are set into the west wall of the nave: five sections of two-strand interlace carving, a 11th-century voluted capital, a section of "jews harp" moulded hood, and two early 13th-century hobnail decorated octagonal capitals.

Monuments include a 14th-century recess with a moulded head and human head stops containing a ledger slab to Alis de Pedwardyn, who died in 1330, showing her head flanked by shields and a marginal inscription. A limestone plaque to William Yorke, who died in 1689, is supported by a corbel on the east wall. A fine alabaster monument to Sir Thomas Horseman, who died in 1610, is on the west wall, depicting him lying in full plate armour with his head on a cushion. Beneath is a plain pilastered tomb chest with a gadrooned top and a pair of semi-circular arches over inscription panels, flanked by Corinthian columns supporting a plain entablature with an armorial escutcheon.