Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a parish church dating back to the 12th century, with subsequent additions and alterations in the 13th and 14th centuries, and further restoration in the early 19th and early 20th centuries. It is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and a tiled roof, with a timber-framed upper stage to the tower. The church includes a nave, a north tower with a north porch, a north-east aisle (now an organ chamber), a south porch, and a chancel with a north chapel.

The south front of the nave features raised verges. It has a restored three-light window with trefoil-headed lights and tracery to the left, a similar window, and a two-light 13th-century window to the right of a 19th-century gabled porch displaying a coat of arms in the gable. A 12th-century doorway has a semi-circular relieving arch with a label and chevron and dog-tooth ornament, a plain masonry tympanum, and a decorated lintel below with diapering and scale ornament, along with plain jambs with chamfered brackets supporting the lintel. The chancel has a buttress at its junction with the nave, and another to the east end, with an altered ogee-headed light to the left and a window with two trefoil-headed lights to the right of the doorway, featuring chamfered jambs and a two-centred head. The north tower has four stages, culminating in a square pyramidal spire. It contains semicircular-headed lights to the lower stages, a pair of similar lights to the third stage, and a timber-framed bell stage with close-studding and bracing to the upper part, with clock faces to the north and south and hipped lucarnes to the north and south of the spire.

Inside, the church is notable for its trussed rafter roof, likely dating to the 14th century in the nave, north aisle and north chapel, and the 15th or 16th century in the chancel. The five-bay nave has a tower to the north of the central bay, and a two-bay arcade to the north aisle with two chamfered orders, central drum piers, a semi-circular respond to the east, and a square respond to the west with moulded capitals. A squat, semi-circular-headed archway with a moulded label forms the chancel arch, with square responds having moulded imposts. The two-bay chancel is connected to the chapel by a semi-circular-headed arch of two orders, both chamfered; the inner semi-circular respond has a scallop capital to the east, while the west respond is plain. Fittings include a 15th-century stone reredos to the east wall of the north chapel, consisting of seven bays, with the central and outer bays being wider and extending to full height, each topped with a baldacchino canopy. A 13th-century font has a plain circular bowl with a cylindrical stem and chamfered base. A wooden hexagonal pulpit retains 17th-century decorated panels.