Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a Grade II* listed building located on St Andrew's Road in Felixstowe. Constructed between 1929 and 1931, it was designed by Hilda Mason in collaboration with Raymond Erith and later modified by Raymond Wrinch. The church features a reinforced ferroconcrete post and lintel structure with flat panels of pebble dash render, partly over brick, and some exposed brickwork. The roof has a shallow pitch and is clad in concrete and asbestos. The design is inspired by the late 15th-century church tradition of East Anglia.

The church includes a continuous nave and chancel with north and south nave aisles, and a south porch. It has nine bays of horizontal and vertical framework, with six bay aisles that reach clerestory height. The windows in the aisles and chancel are mullion and transom style, mostly fitted with clear glass, while the clerestory windows are set in exposed brick surrounds. An open concrete parapet runs along the nave, chancel, and aisles. The south porch rises to aisle height and features a four-centred arched span with open concrete spandrels. A pair of doors made of linenfold panelled oak leads into the porch. The west end of the church has two polygonal angle turrets that rise above the parapet, and the decoration of the concrete framework and pebble-dashed panels mimics the flushwork style of the 15th century. An intended west tower was never built.

Inside, the church has a six-bay nave with north and south arcades supported by cross quadrant sectioned piers that hold four-centred arches with open spandrels and vertical struts. The shallow pitched roof is made of concrete beams rising from the arcade piers, infilled with Columbian pine, and the aisle roofs are similar. The south and north doors are framed in cast concrete and decorated with intersecting lozenges. There is a west and central blocked arch with concrete panel decoration above and to the sides. Each side has a door leading to the turret, lit by leaded and glazed loops. The church features a pair of octagonal pulpits and an octagonal font, all with folded panel decoration, designed by Wrinch. The chancel has a solid three-bay north wall with one window and two open bays leading to the organ chamber on the south side, lined with oak panelling by Wrinch. The east window, also designed by Wrinch, has a heavy transom with three lights below and five lights above, depicting the Ascension. The nave benches were designed by Erith, while most of the chancel fittings were created by Wrinch.