Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a parish church with late 14th-century origins. The nave was rebuilt, and a tower and porch were added in the 1840s. Further restoration and the addition of a vestry and organ bay occurred in 1870, designed by C.B. Trollope. The church is primarily constructed from flint rubble, with stock brick and cement rendering, and tiled roofs. It retains a medieval nave and chancel plan, with a tower to the west, a porch to the south, and a vestry and organ bay to the northeast.

The east window features three lights with restored reticulated tracery, a pointed arched head with a hood mould, and tile coursing at sill level. There is a blocked brick arched opening at ground level and a moulded rendered gable parapet with kneelers and two-stage diagonal buttresses. The chancel's south elevation incorporates two 15th-century two-light square-headed windows with cinquefoiled lights, an outer hollow moulding, a blocked priest's door, and sprocket eaves.

The taller nave has a projecting, closed south porch with a moulded Tudor arch containing a panelled door, and a moulded and coped gable parapet with two-stage diagonal buttresses. Four-light square-headed windows are set within the porch returns, flanked by two-light four-centred arched windows, cinquefoiled lights with upper quatrefoils, hood moulds, and two-stage diagonal buttresses, with a similar arrangement to the north. The west end of the nave has a coped gable parapet with kneelers.

The two-stage western tower features a panelled door within a moulded Tudor arch, cusped spandrels, mask stopped hood moulds, and vertical louvred lights with plain lugged architraves, diamond panels with inner circles intended for clocks, and trefoil ornament. Three-stage angle buttresses support a cornice to the embattled parapet, with steps leading up to the centre, above the louvred belfry openings. A trefoil-ornamented, octagonal spire tops the tower.

The separately roofed vestry/organ bay to the north of the chancel has a monumental northern entrance with a moulded Tudor arched surround, diagonal buttresses, and two-light windows within gable ends, each with kneelers to the coped gable parapets.

Inside, a 14th-century piscina is set into the chancel’s south wall, at a raised floor level, featuring a trefoiled arch, a hollow moulded surround, and a stopped hood mould, alongside a credence shelf. There are 19th-century triple pointed and chamfered tower arches. The tower was converted to an octagonal baptistery in 1870, accommodating a circular stem and an octagonal font. A timber chancel arch displays a braced tie beam with moulded drops, while a dado moulding runs along the nave and chancel walls. The nave roof has moulded 19th-century tie beams and struts. An archway connects the chancel to the organ bay, with a door leading to the vestry.

Monuments include a cartouche with an epitaph to George Lord Viscount Grandison (d.1699) on the chancel's north wall, carved in Baroque style with arms above. A copy monument to Rev E. Bourchier (d.1775) and a simple marble slab to Rev E. Bourchier (d.1785) are also on the chancel's south wall. A 17th-century chest resides within the vestry. The organ, by H. Jones of Fulham Road, features Gothic carving and painted pipes, and the east window contains late 19th-century stained glass. Historical records, including those attributed to Matthew Paris, suggest Bramfield was the first benefice of St. Thomas Becket.