Church Of St Andrew

Parish church of the 15th century with some re-used earlier details. Documented bequests date to 1443 for the nave, 1463 for the porch, and 1504 for a donation of lead. The building was restored in 1811 and 1897, with the tower undergoing restoration in 1902. It comprises a west tower, nave, aisles and chancel.

The tower is constructed in brick with ashlar dressings, while the remainder of the church is rendered brick and ashlar with lead roofs. The three-stage tower features angle buttresses to the belfry. The west door is arched beneath a hood mould, with a cusped ogeed statuary niche to the left and a lean-to plain tiled chamber built through the buttress to the right, probably an anchorite cell. An arched door faces west, with a lancet window to the north and a two-light cusped window to the south in the buttress. The west window consists of two lights with Perpendicular panel tracery and an embattled transom. A string course separates the ringing chamber from the belfry. A cusped lancet window is positioned to the south. The belfry windows are two lights with ogee reticulation units. A crenellated parapet with ashlar corner pinnacles crowns the tower. A stair tower to the south-east is entered through an external arched door and terminates in a polygonal turret.

The nave aisles are supported by stepped buttresses, angled at the corners. Three two-light arched and transomed aisle windows appear on both north and south sides, with the transoms featuring crenellations. Similar two-light aisle windows face west, and three-light windows face east. The clerestory comprises eight two-light renewed Perpendicular windows, separated by pilaster strips interrupted by bell-moulded annulations. Octagonal rood stair turrets to the north and south have roll-moulded edges and spirelets.

The gabled south porch features angle buttresses, an arched moulded entrance with circular responds, and an embattled parapet terminating in panelled ashlar corner pinnacles enlivened by crockets and finials, all beneath a slate roof. The inner porch door is arched with a hood on labels. A low arched and moulded north aisle door also provides entry.

The three-bay chancel has stepped side buttresses angled to the east, with three three-light windows featuring cusped arches below panel tracery. A crenellated parapet crowns the chancel. The three-light east window dates to 1897 and has a wide central light ogeed below an indeterminate tracery pattern of general Perpendicular character.

The interior features a four-bay arcade of lozenge piers with continuous hollow mouldings and rolls to north and south. The rolls continue as colonnettes rising from spandrels and apexes of arches framing clerestory windows and supporting wall posts of 19th-century roofs. The nave roof consists of arched braces to moulded principals with two tiers of butt purlins and a ridge piece. A tall stilted tower arch sits on polygonal responds. The chancel arch is on piers panelled to the south. Round-arched rood stairs are positioned to the north and south; the latter sits below a fan-vaulted rood screen corbel. A two-light window sits over the chancel arch. The aisle roofs match the nave.

The chancel contains a cusped piscina within a square surround with cusped spandrels. The south nave chapel piscina is composed of a four-centred arch on engaged columns within a fleuron-studded square surround below a crenellated hood. Double aumbries appear in both the south and north nave walls. A 17th-century tower gallery with balustrade is supported on arched braces with turned balusters below a plain handrail. The handrail features cast iron palmettes and alternating finials. An octagonal 15th-century font has a bowl carved in panels of quatrefoils and shields. A 17th-century pulpit stands on a 15th-century sandstone plinth and features carved arcading and interlacing circles in the top frieze. Painted Royal Arms of George III are displayed over the tower arch.