Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a parish church located in Little Cressinghham, with origins in the medieval period and later alterations. It is constructed of flint with ashlar and some brick dressings, featuring roofs made of corrugated concrete tiles and plain tiles. The church has a former tower porch on the south side of the nave, though one and a half sides of this structure have collapsed. The nave is aisled, but the two westernmost bays of the nave and the westernmost bay of the south aisle are roofless. Additionally, two bays of the north aisle have been demolished, leaving only the west wall intact.

The church includes a chancel and a fragmentary 15th-century tower, which has two surviving angle buttresses and a remnant of a wave and double ogee moulded eastern entrance jamb, but no bell openings. There is a stoop beside the moulded south doorway. The west wall features a chequered flushwork plinth, where the stone is simulated with mortar. The large west window has been reduced to a late-medieval flat-headed two-light window. The aisle wall contains a three-light window that is also simulated in flushwork. The south aisle has three three-light windows with mouchettes beneath four-centred arches, along with a similar east window. The north aisle, added in the 19th century, includes tracery that imitates the south aisle.

The chancel features one 14th-century two-light window with a cusped soufflet on the north side, and two blocked windows on the south with remaining tracery stumps. There is a moulded priest's doorway and a three-light east window with tracery crudely reinstated based on the remaining stumps. The present entrance to the west is in a brick wall that divides the roofed church from the ruin. Inside, the church showcases fine Perpendicular arcades, where each pier consists of opposing half-shafts against a narrow wave-moulded core that rises uninterrupted to form the outer order of the arch. The wave-moulded inner order is supported on half-shafts, and the chancel arch is plain and chamfered. The chancel also contains an arched trilobe piscina with carved terminals.