Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St. Andrew is a unique structure with vertical split oak log walls in the nave, which have been dated by dendro-magnetic method to 845 AD. It is said that the body of St. Edmund rested here around 1013 while on its journey to Bury St. Edmunds. The church was re-roofed during the reign of Henry VII and underwent significant restoration and underpinning between 1837 and 1848, during which carved spandrels depicting the legend of St. Edmund were added and dormer windows were inserted. The chancel was rebuilt in red brick around 1500, featuring an original arched and moulded doorway and window on the south side.

The tower, which is timber framed and weatherboarded with a brooched shingle spire, is of uncertain date and includes three louvre openings to the belfry and a three-light diamond leaded window. Above the ground floor, there is a three-light window with cuspings and tracery. The roofs of the nave and chancel are covered with plain red tiles and have three gabled dormers on the north and south sides, each with two-light leaded windows and barge boards on the gables. The chancel has a flint plinth, likely from the original Norman chancel, and round-headed moulded brick windows with drip hoods on the north and south walls, in addition to the original window and doorway. The east window features three lights with cusped tracery, a moulded brick surround, and a label. Stone-capped buttresses are present on all ends of the chancel.

The south porch is timber framed, gabled, and has barge boards. Internally, the chancel arch is made of 16th-century moulded brick in two orders. There is a pillar piscina of uncertain date, a small arched panel painting of St. Edmund from around 1500, and a stained glass head of a man, also reputed to be St. Edmund, in the west window, dating to around 1500. The pulpit features moulded timber panels dated 1698. Notable monuments include T. Smith from 1585 and R. Hewyt from April 26, 1724.