Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a parish church largely dating to the 12th century, with significant additions and alterations throughout the 13th, 15th, and 17th centuries. In 1812, the north aisle was rebuilt, and a restoration was carried out in 1903-4 by C.H. Fowler. The church is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, featuring ashlar quoins. The nave and north aisle have shallow pitched lead roofs, while the chancel has a taller, steeply pitched plain tile roof with ashlar coped gables and finials.

The west front is distinguished by a 17th-century deeply moulded and coped gable, which curves over a bell opening and is topped with an obelisk finial. A chamfered lancet window is set below, and above, a round arched bellcote is present. The north aisle's west wall has a single chamfered lancet window, and the north wall has four more of the same style. The north vestry has a chamfered doorway and a two-light mullion window to the east. A tall ashlar stack rises from the north chancel roof. The chancel east wall contains a three-light panel tracery window with a chamfered, four-centred arched surround and hood, accompanied by a smaller two-light window and a pointed arch priest’s door to the south. The nave’s south wall features a buttress with set-offs, a chamfered lancet window, and a two-light pointed arched window with reticulated tracery within a chamfered surround and hood. A two-light, four-centred arched window with panel tracery, set within a chamfered surround and hood, is located to the west of the porch. The porch has a plain tile roof and an ashlar coped gable, with a double chamfered, shallow pointed archway. The inner doorway has a chamfered surround, moulded concave hood and a heavily restored 15th-century wooden door.

Inside, a four-bay round arched north arcade is present. The eastern three bays are earlier, with chamfered and roll moulded arches, scalloped capitals to the circular piers, and volute capitals to the responds. The western bay is separated by a square pier with a double chamfered arch and a dogtooth band above, and features moulded capitals on the responds. The pointed chancel arch is double chamfered with octagonal responds, moulded capitals, and a hood. Fragments of a Saxon cross, decorated with interlace, are found in the north aisle, alongside a 15th-century octagonal tub font. A restored 15th-century wooden screen and roofs are also present, along with a 19th-century boarded chancel roof, wooden pews, pulpit, and reredos. A charity board, established by Dame Margaret Thurold in the late 17th century, is located in the nave, as is an alabaster tablet commemorating those who died in the Great War. Fragments of medieval stained glass are contained within the nave and north aisle west windows, while the remainder of the windows have late 19th and 20th-century stained glass.