Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a parish church primarily dating to the 13th and 14th centuries, with a restoration in 1865. It is constructed of sandstone rubble with sandstone dressings, a tiled roof, a timber-framed bell-turret with a shingle roof, and a timber-framed and brick south porch. The church consists of a continuous two-bay chancel and a three-bay nave, with a slight central projection supporting the west side of the bell-turret.

The bell-turret has a pyramidal roof and corner posts to the northeast and southwest, featuring a pair of lozenge-shaped openings facing south and two 19th-century trefoil-headed openings to the west. Below the bell-chamber is a plain string course above a 2-light square-headed mullioned window and a chamfered two-stage plinth. The north wall incorporates three 2-light trefoil-headed 19th-century windows and a large central buttress. The east end features another large buttress towards the northeast corner, a deep plinth approximately three feet high, and two widely spaced lancets. To the right of the south wall is a 13th-century window with three chamfered lancets, adjacent to a priests' doorway with a 2-centred head. West of the doorway are two square-headed 2-light mullioned windows, the eastern one being taller than the western.

The 14th-century south porch has brick supporting side walls, curved braces to the open sides, arch-braces to the two main trusses, with rafters pegged at their apices. The south door is set within a 2-centred chamfered arch.

Inside, the roof features an elliptical ceiling with moulded wall plates and three tie-beams, one beneath the bell-turret, one across the middle of the nave, and one above a 14th-century oak screen, which is the most significant internal feature. The screen has a central 2-centred roll-moulded pegged arch under an ovolo-moulded head beam, flanked by a chamfered rail about halfway up its jambs; it has three panels to each side formed by chamfered late 19th-century posts. A 19th-century quatrefoil drain sits within the cill of the east window of the south wall, beneath which is an 18th-century oak chest. The two east lancets contain stained glass in the Morris/Burne-Jones style, depicting The Annunciation; the left window is inscribed with "Hail thou that art highly favoured: the Lord is with thee," and the right with “Behold the handmaiden of the Lord: be it unto me according to thy word”. To the east side of the screen is a late 19th-century harmonium by the Bell Organ & Piano Co Ltd of Guelph, Canada, notable for its elaborate back rail with fretwork and a central feature of gilded wooden imitation organ pipes. The font is octagonal, moulded, and sits on a square base, itself restored or dating to the 19th century. The east side of the bell-turret is supported on two heavy moulded and chamfered posts with 19th-century foiled braces.