Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a Grade II* parish church located in Metton, dating back to the medieval period. It is constructed from flint and some ironbound conglomerate, featuring brick and stone dressings, with slate and glazed black pantile roofs. The church includes an early 14th-century west tower, nave, north porch, and early 14th-century chancel.

The tower is unbuttressed and embattled, consisting of three stages. It has archways on the north and south faces, which may have been used for processions, each featuring a continuous chamfered order with brick on the underside of the arch. The west window has two lights with panel tracery and brick voussoirs, set in a larger opening that is now blocked with brick. The bell-openings have Y-tracery with alternate brick and flint voussoirs, and the tower is adorned with flushwork battlements and gargoyles.

The nave, which has two bays, is buttressed, possibly with angle buttresses, though the eastern ones have been removed. The west doorway features a chamfer that merges into an arch with two rolls, while the south nave doorway has a continuous hollow-chamfer. There are two 3-light square-headed windows with panel tracery, one of which has been restored, and a similar window on the north side. The chancel, also unbuttressed, has two bays and includes a Y-tracery window to the south and a 3-light window with a square head and panel tracery, complete with a hood mould. The east window features three lights with intersecting tracery, and there are no openings on the north side. A 19th-century north porch has been added to the first bay of the nave, with a continuously chamfered doorway.

Inside, there is a large pointed opening to the tower above the doorway, a roll-moulded wall plate, and corbels, with figures on the northern corbels. The roofs were boarded in 1890. There is an ogee-headed cusped piscina with leaves on the finial and head at the base, and a font with a chamfered base and rounded bowl supported at the rear. A brass memorial to R. Doughty and his wife, who died in 1493, features figures that are 0.5 meters high.