Church of St Andrew is a Grade II* listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1962. A Medieval Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Andrew
- WRENN ID
- stark-timber-honey
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1962
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Andrew, High Street, Oakington and Westwick, CB24 3AG
- OS grid reference
- TL 414 648
- Coordinates
- 52.26317, 0.07189
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Andrew is a parish church largely dating to the early and late 13th century, with 15th and 19th-century additions and mid-20th century repairs to the windows. The building is constructed of rubble stone, including pebble stone and pudding stone, with limestone dressings. The roofs are tiled with end parapets.
The church comprises a west tower, nave, north and south aisles, a south porch, and a chancel. The late 13th-century west tower is built of coursed pebble stone, with some reused tiles, set on a splayed plinth and topped with an embattled parapet featuring gargoyles. It has four stages, a two-centred doorway with two chamfered orders, and restored west window. The bell chamber openings are original. The original gable of the 13th-century roof to the nave is visible in the east wall of the tower.
The south aisle, originally 13th century, was rebuilt in the 15th century. It has restored windows with vertical tracery, and a blocked 13th-century lancet remains in the west wall. It has a low, parapetted roof. The south porch is 19th century, but the inner arch is 13th century, two-centred, with two chamfered orders, the outer order being restored and set on shafts.
The chancel is from the early 13th century with restored lancets to the south wall. The original south doorway has a single chamfered order in a pointed arch. The east window is 19th-century. The north doorway was rebuilt in the 15th century with a four-centred arch in a square head.
Inside, the nave arcade has five bays with two-centred arches, round columns, moulded capitals, and holdwater bases, possibly slightly earlier than the rest of the arcade. The north arcade is similar, with arches and labels on octagonal columns with moulded capitals and bases. The roofs are all 19th-century. A north chapel contains two 15th-century niches flanking a window each, featuring cusped ogee arches and small vaulted canopies. The chancel arch is of a similar date to the nave arcades. Chamfered rear arches define the windows in the north and south walls of the chancel. A piscina and sedilia were removed during a 19th-century restoration. Numerous early 13th-century tomb slabs, reset with omega ornament, are present. The font is 13th century, square on an octagonal stem with subsidiary octagonal stems; the basin is carved, with two sides featuring round-headed arcading in three bays, and one side with arcading in two bays.
Local climate
Church of St Andrew sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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