Church Of St Andrew And St Mary

The Church of St Andrew and St Mary is a parish church located in How Caple. It features a chancel from the 14th century, while the west tower, nave, and south transept were constructed between 1693 and 1695. The church has undergone further restoration and alterations in 1889, 1910 to 1912, and during the 1920s and 1930s. It is built from sandstone rubble and ashlar, topped with a slate roof.

The church includes a west porch, a west tower, a nave with a south porch, a south transept, and a chancel. The west porch was added in the 1930s. The west tower, dated 1693, has three stages, two moulded string courses, an embattled parapet, diagonal stepped buttresses, and a 2-light window on the second and third stages. The nave features two trefoiled ogee-headed lights with a quatrefoil to the left of the former south porch, along with a similar 2-light window in the former doorway of the porch. The gable end of the south transept has a 3-light window in the style of the 14th century, with 2-light windows on the left and right returns. The chancel has a restored early 14th-century window, two cinquefoil-headed lights to the left, and two trefoil-headed lights to the right. The east window is also from the 14th century, featuring three cinquefoil-headed lights with vertical tracery.

Inside, the nave has a 17th-century roof, while the chancel has a 16th-century ceiled roof with bosses. Notable fittings include a late 17th-century screen with twisted columns and an arch, which supports the Royal Arms of William III. The font is from the 12th century, with an octagonal bowl decorated with haphazard folial and geometric motifs. A heavily sculpted reredos depicting the Last Supper was added in 1918. The south transept contains several memorials to the Gregory family, including a wall tablet for William Gregory from 1765, featuring a relief with a putto and urn. The north wall of the nave was largely rebuilt in the early 1920s, incorporating memorial windows for members of the Lee family. An early 16th-century German diptych noted by Pevsner was not in situ as of September 1985.