Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St. Andrew is a parish church located on High Street in Kemberton. It was built in 1882 by Joseph Farmer and includes a nave, chancel, south porch, and vestry. The west tower, constructed in 1908 by Farmer, replaced an earlier 18th-century tower. The church is made of sandstone ashlar with plain tiled roofs.

The tower has three stages, featuring angle buttresses on a plinth, with a date stone from 1908 above it. The bottom stage has a west window with three lights and unusual leaf-like tracery. The second stage contains a square-headed window with two cusped lights, while the belfry stage showcases four paired, deeply recessed pointed windows with cusped lights and stiff leaf carving on the finials of the hoodmoulds. The tower is topped with an embattled parapet, eight crocketted pinnacles, an external stair turret on the north side, and a clock on the south.

The nave is buttressed and consists of three bays, featuring windows with decorated tracery, two of which have transoms in their heads, all equipped with hoodmoulds. The chancel has an east window with three lights and geometrical tracery, along with two south-facing two-light windows, also with geometrical tracery and hoodmoulds. The south doorway is pointed and adorned with stiff leaf carving in the head. The plain gabled south porch, added in 1889, has a pointed doorway, while the vestry includes a two-light window in the east wall, a chimney, and an external entrance on the north side.

Inside, there is a tall pointed tower arch and arch-braced roofs in both the nave and chancel. The chancel arch features leaf decoration on the innermost order and stiff leaf carving on the capitals above a low marble screen with brass railings. The east window contains stained glass, likely from 1882, which is partially obscured by an early 20th-century reredos. Other interior elements include a marble pulpit, font, encaustic tiles depicting hunting scenes in the chancel, and various late 19th-century fittings. The Royal Arms of George III are displayed over the south door.

The church is situated on a medieval site where fragments of a 13th-century building remained until they were taken down around 1781, when a new church was constructed. Only the nave is dedicated to St. Andrew, while the chancel is dedicated to St. John the Baptist.