Church Of St Andrew

Church of St Andrew

This church, located at Hasketon, dates primarily from the 11th to 12th centuries, with significant early 14th-century work and 19th-century restoration. It is constructed of rubble flint with ashlar dressings and has a plain tile roof. The building comprises a western tower, nave, chancel, north-eastern vestry, and south-western porch.

The Tower

The tower has a circular lower body dating to the 11th or 12th century, surmounted by an octagonal belfry stage of early 14th-century date. The western-facing portion contains a two-light early 14th-century window with Y-tracery, set within a chamfered ashlar surround with hood-mould, and a lancet light above with ashlar surround. The tower steps back via an ashlar offset to the early 14th-century octagonal upper body, which has ashlar quoins to the corners and a central belfry opening with louvres and Y-tracery. Above this rises a brick parapet of late 18th or early 19th-century date, with ashlar coping. The northern and southern faces are similar but lack ground floor windows, while the eastern face, which abuts the nave, contains a comparable belfry opening.

The Nave

The north face has been largely rebuilt in the early 14th century with ashlar quoins, though some herringbone flint remains visible. It features a lancet window at the right and a doorway to the right of centre with ashlar surround incorporating double-wave moulding and hood-mould. The doorway retains an early 14th-century plank door with contemporary strap hinge. To the left is a Perpendicular window of two lights with quatrefoil heads and plate tracery, flanked by a buttress that dies back into the wall via three offsets.

The south face contains a mid-19th-century porch at its left of centre, constructed of knapped flint. The porch side walls are of rubble flint with single lancet lights featuring quatrefoil heads and hood-moulds. To the left of the porch stands a Perpendicular window of two lights, the tracery largely replaced in the 19th century. To its right is a Decorated window with 19th-century tracery that may repeat the original curvilinear pattern. Further right is a late-Decorated window of two lights, with a buttress at the extreme right dying back via three offsets.

The Chancel

The chancel has a lower ridge than the nave. Its east face appears to have been largely rebuilt in the 19th century, with diagonal buttresses dying back via two offsets, ashlar kneelers and coping. A central 19th-century window of three lights with trefoil heads, trefoils, and cinquefoil to the apex is positioned here. The north face includes the projecting vestry at the right, which features a lean-to roof, rubble walling, and diagonal buttresses dying back into the corners, with a doorway at the left having a simple chamfered surround. The vestry's left flank contains a window of coupled ogee-headed lancets. To the left of the vestry is a lancet window with hollow-chamfered ashlar surround and hood-mould. The south face has a 19th-century Decorated window at its extreme left (two lights with trefoil heads and trefoil to the apex) and, to the right of this, a Perpendicular window of two lights with quatrefoil heads.

Interior

The porch contains the church doorway, which displays a richly-moulded arch incorporating hollow chamfer, wave, and quirked bead mouldings.

In the nave, the original roof of four bays has been replaced with a wagon roof of plaster panels with moulded pine ribs. The original trusses survive only as tie beams, which feature ovolo mouldings to their lower angles and brattishing to their tops, with a 19th-century cornice bearing ovolo mouldings.

The font, of mid-15th-century date, is octagonal in stem with sunken panels of blind tracery, before which stand small semi-octagonal plinths as if to carry crouching lions and buttresses that were either unexecuted or have been removed. Below the bowl are angels' heads with interlacing wings. The bowl itself contains sunken panels: those facing the compass points feature angels bearing coats of arms of the De Brewse family, who erected it, impaling Ufford, Shardelow, and Stapleton. Roses appear in high relief on the other panels, with leaves in shallow relief extending into the angles.

A monument of 1665 in alabaster commemorates William Robert Goodwyn. It comprises a rectangular tablet with aedicular surround, coats of arms to the surmount, cherubs to the frieze with pomegranates below, and a cherub's head with swag of fruit to the apron. The lower doorway to the rood screen is now blocked, but retains a double ogee archway of ashlar.

The chancel is roofed with a wagon roof incorporating moulded ribs similar to those in the nave but with square flower bosses to the intersections, and a dentilled cornice below. An alabaster monument of 1635 commemorates William Farrer, featuring a central rectangular tablet of black marble with segmental top, surrounded by white alabaster with auricular ornament to the sides, a winged cherub's head to the surmount, and a skull with crossed bones to the apron.

The chancel arch has double chamfering with broach stops to the bottom. A south-eastern window displays colonnettes to either side of the reveal with moulded caps and bases.