Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a Decorated Gothic style church dating from 1875, designed by F Preedy for JW Carlisle. It is constructed of snecked blue lias stone with sandstone ashlar dressings, tile roofs with some slate, and a shingle spire.

The church’s layout consists of a two-bay chancel with a north vestry/organ loft, a three-bay nave with a lean-to north aisle, and a south porch-tower with a spire. Exterior features include a plain plinth, offset buttresses, and coped gables with crosses. The chancel has angle buttresses, small buttresses surrounding a traceried window, a lancet and a brick chimney stack. The lean-to vestry has a pointed entrance, strap hinges, a north window with three trefoil-headed lights, and a basement entrance. The nave has three-light windows and buttresses to the east of a three-stage tower. The tower has angle buttresses, a canted stair turret to the west, an entrance with continuous mouldings, and lancets to the returns. The top stage is timber-framed, featuring a battered plinth with gabled clock faces, paired cusped two-light bell openings with louvres, and a broached spire with two tiers of lucarnes. The lean-to north aisle has a slate roof and three pairs of single-chamfered lancets. The west end features a buttress between a four-light nave window with a trefoil-headed light above, and three stepped lancets to the aisle.

Inside, the walls are of ashlar, banded with buff and grey stone. The chancel has an arch-braced roof supported by foliate corbels, with a chancel arch resting on short, corbelled shafts. There is a corbelled arch to the organ loft. The nave arcade has moulded arches on round piers. The roof features alternating arch-braced collar trusses and hammerbeam trusses. A corbelled arch connects the aisle to the vestry. Fittings include a timber reredos featuring blind tracery and cusped arches, stalls and altar rails with trefoil-headed arches, a timber pulpit with two-light trefoil-headed panels, a relief-panelled lectern, and a font with clustered shafts and a trefoil-headed arcade. The church contains examples of stained glass from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.