Church Of St Andrew And St Peter

The Church of St Andrew and St Peter is a parish church dating from the 14th century with subsequent alterations. It is constructed of flint with stone dressings, and has lead and slate roofs. The church comprises a west tower, a north aisle, a north porch, a south aisle, a nave, a chancel, a north boiler house, and a south vestry.

The 15th-century west tower is four stages high, containing a polygonal stair turret and diagonal buttresses. Flushwork is visible on the basecourse, buttress ends, and parapet. The west doorway is Perpendicular in style, with attached shafts and spandrels emblazoned with the symbols of the patron saints. A four-light Perpendicular window with traceried heads sits above the doorway. Reticulated sound holes are set within rectangular openings. The belfry has three-light Perpendicular windows with traceried heads, and is topped with a battlelemented parapet featuring hexagonal finials and sculpture. The north aisle has five bays and incorporates three-light Perpendicular windows with tracery between buttresses. The north porch has a wave moulded north doorway, with attached shafts and a hood mould terminating in a head label stop. An ogee cusped niche is positioned above the entrance, flanked by rectangular niches. Two-light windows are present at ground floor level, and a single-light window at a former first-floor level. A niche for a stoup is found inside on the east wall. A wave moulded north doorway opens to the nave, and a parapet gable is present. The south aisle is similarly configured with five bays, three-light Perpendicular windows with traceried heads, and a gabled buttress supporting the south aisle and clerestory. A south doorway is located at the west end. The five-bay clerestory features two-light Reticulated windows. The two-bay chancel has blocked north and south windows. A north-west window was re-opened in the 20th century and replaced with a Perpendicular style window. A 19th-century five-light east window is present. A lean-to boiler house from the 19th century is attached to the north, and a knapped flint south vestry is located nearby. Parapet gables are topped with grotesques on kneelers and crosses on the apex. The tower arch has attached shafts. A late 14th-century, five-bay arcade displays quatrefoil piers with polygonal bases and capitals. The north aisle roof dates from the 15th century. Rood stair doorways are located in the north aisle and chancel. A late 14th-century chancel arch has hollowed shafts, bases, and capitals. A Perpendicular angle piscina with a cusped ogee arch on the west face and blind tracery on the north side is also present. A medieval rood screen base contains twelve painted saints. Medieval bench ends, with poppy-heads, some depicting seated or kneeling figures, survive. Tiered box pews from the 19th century are also part of the interior. The 15th-century octagonal font is decorated with scenes from the life of Christ, set within an octagonal base featuring cusped blank panels. A monument to Edward Paston, who died in 1630, is fashioned in alabaster with an arched recess flanked by Tuscan columns and depicts his sons and daughters. Brick floors contain brass matrices. Brasses commemorating members of the Paston family are set into the chancel floor.