Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a parish church dating to the late 13th century, with significant additions and alterations spanning the 14th to 16th centuries. It is notable for its monuments, particularly within the chancel and south aisle. The building is constructed of rubble and pebble stone with ashlar dressings of Welson and Ketton stone.

The west tower was built in the early 16th century and is embattled, featuring crocketed pinnacles at the corners and a moulded cornice with gargoyles. It has three stages with bell stage, set back by angle buttressing and containing a newel staircase in the south-west corner. The tower features early 16th-century fenestration, door openings, and a frieze of cusped panelling below the cornice and above a double splayed plinth. The nave has a plain tiled roof with an embattled parapet, and a clerestory on each side with five restored 15th-century windows. The north and south aisles are 14th century, with 14th-century fenestration in the south aisle and 15th-century windows in the north aisle. A 14th-century south porch has a 19th-century slate roof, originally featuring a sundial to the gable end. Its inner archway is two-centred, with two moulded orders carried on attached shafts with foliate capitals. The porch contains a 16th-century door with nail-studded battens and an ornamental lock plate. The 13th-century chancel includes an original south doorway and a single lancet window in the north wall, two 14th-century windows in the south wall, and a 15th-century east window of five cinquefoil lights. A north vestry, dated 1526, is inscribed "E NEL" on the parapet, and adjoins a north chapel, also early 16th century and featuring an embattled parapet and two cinquefoil light windows.

The interior contains north and south arcades of five bays, likely of late 13th-century origin but rebuilt in the 15th century. These feature two-centred arches of two chamfered orders, carried on round columns with moulded capitals and bases. The nave now has a 19th-century roof resting on 15th-century corbels. The early 16th-century north chapel is vaulted and panelled, containing a recess in the north wall. A 15th-century chancel arch is two-centred and of two chamfered orders, the inner order carried on attached shafts with moulded capitals and bases. The late 17th-century communion rail has turned and twisted balusters with a moulded rail. A 13th-century font consists of an octagonal bowl on a modern stem. A screen between the tower arch and nave, dated 1539, is inscribed to Oliver and Frances Leder. Numerous monuments are present, including an early 17th-century monument on the north wall of the chancel, comprising two bays divided by Corinthian columns, commemorating Sir James Deyer (1580), Margaret his wife (1560), Sir Richard Deyer (1605), and Marie his wife (1601), erected by Sir William Deyer. A late 17th-century monument on the south wall commemorates Christopher and Mar, infant children of John Conyers, and a white marble panel to Sarah, wife of John Spencer, and Sarah their daughter (1632). In the north chapel is a black marble and alabaster altar tomb to Sir James Beverley (1670). A large, partly painted freestone monument in the south aisle commemorates Sir George Wanton (1606), erected by Sir Oliver Cromwell.