Church Of St. Andrew

The Church of St. Andrew is a medieval parish church. It is constructed primarily of flint with stone dressings, and features lead roofs with pantiles to the porch. The church comprises a west tower, nave, north aisle, south porch, and chancel.

The embattled tower has two stages and diagonal buttresses. The west window has three lights, the centre light with an ogee head, panel tracery, and a hood mould. Single cusped lights are present in the ringing chamber. The bell openings feature two ogee-headed lights, a continuous sill band, and a hood mould. The nave is buttressed with four bays, featuring three restored four-light windows with panel tracery to the south. A rood stair is incorporated into the structure. A doorway with continuous hollow chamfer and hood mould is found on the north side, alongside three three-light windows with panel tracery under four-centred arches and hood moulds. The restored west window to the aisle has three lights and an embattled transom. The east wall of the aisle was rebuilt in the 18th century using brick and flint. The clerestory includes three windows, with the central one blocked and featuring two cusped lights. The buttressed chancel has two bays, with the south wall constructed of galleted flint. Notable features include a three-light window with cusped reticulated tracery, a priest’s door with continuous hollow chamfer and hood mould, and a window with two ogee lights under a stilted round arch and stilted hood mould. A large blocked opening is visible in the north chancel, with polygonal capitals to the shafts. It also includes a two-light window with cusped reticulated tracery and a blocked doorway with a four-centred brick arch. The east window is of three lights with restored cusped reticulated tracery, and features a hood mould with figure stops. The heavily restored porch to the first nave bay includes small cusped lights to the east and west. 19th and 20th century brick eaves dentils, kneelers, and gables are present. The continuously moulded nave doorway has six orders, with a hollow in the middle, a moulded hood, and a restored medieval door.

Inside, the four-bay nave arcade has cruciform piers: the east and west shafts rise to carry the inner order, and polygonal capitals are present. Broad hollows to north and south shafts divide to form the outer order. A rere-arch to the west window includes a castellated impost and a hood mould. The arch-braced nave roof has a brattished wall plate and brattished purlins, featuring bosses. The arch-braced aisle roof incorporates tracery in the spandrels and is restored, with corbels bearing shields, possibly dating from the 19th century. A doorway to the rood stair has a four-centred arch. The tower arch has polygonal shafts and is not central to the nave. The chancel arch features shafts with polygonal capitals and two continuous outer orders. The chancel is notable for visible shafts to a former north chapel, a hammerbeam roof with a castellated wall plate, an ogee-headed piscina, 19th century chancel fittings, many medieval benches with poppy-head ends (with backs added in the nave), box-pews in the north aisle, a restored octagonal font with an octagonal base and shields to the bowl.