Church Of St Andrew

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.