Church Of St. Andrew

The Church of St. Andrew is a parish church dating to approximately 1360, with substantial restoration work completed in 1885-6 by E.P. Willins. The building is constructed of rendered flint with ashlar quoins and has tiled and pantiled roofs. It comprises a west tower, nave, aisles, and a chancel.

The west tower is of four stages, featuring angle buttresses which become diagonal as they rise, and a battlemented parapet with a string course. It has an arched and moulded west door below a two-light window. The ringing chamber has a cusped lancet window and the belfry has two-light windows with louvres. Small kneelers are present on the coped aisle walls.

A south porch has a rebuilt round brick arch, with a small niche above. Blocked three-light Perpendicular windows are situated to the east and west, each covered by a flat hood. The roof incorporates tie bars and braces to the ridge piece, and an undercut moulded door. The chancel features a priest's door, a flat buttress on the north and south sides, and a diagonal buttress at the east end. The clerestorey walls were rebuilt in 1886 and are now fitted with new three-light cusped windows. While most aisle and chancel windows are currently covered in corrugated iron sheets, tracery of transitional Decorated and Perpendicular styles remains visible, exhibiting a variety of designs including three-light panels, two-light ogeed windows with reticulation, and east windows incorporating a 19th-century stem and leaf motif.

Inside, the church has a four-bay arcade with quatrefoil piers, polygonal bases, and continuous hollows and filleted lobes. The polygonal capitals support chamfered and sunk quadrant arches with hood stops. The splays of the clerestorey windows fall below the apex of the arcade. A tall chancel arch is similar in style. The nave and south aisle roofs date to 1886, while the north aisle roof is largely original from the 14th century, featuring moulded rafters and purlins; alternate principals are supported by arched braces carrying pierced traceried spandrels. The chancel roof has been lowered and plastered. Other features include a cinquefoiled sedilia and piscina, a reredos dating from 1896, and a plain octagonal font. The nave has scissor braced roofs with collars on battlemented wall plates.