Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a parish church featuring a nave and chancel under one roof, a west tower, a north porch, and a north vestry. The building is primarily constructed of random flint with stone dressings, and the porch is made of brick, all topped with plaintiled roofs. The 15th-century tower has three-stage diagonal buttresses on the west face only, a crenellated parapet that includes a string course with gargoyles and carved heads at the corners, and panelled fluskwork decoration. The bell-chamber openings are missing tracery, and there is a restored two-light west window. The nave and chancel may date back to the 12th century, featuring a blocked 12th-century window on the south nave wall and a blocked 13th-century lancet on the north nave wall; the existing windows are mid to late 19th-century replacements in the Decorated style. The 16th-century red brick porch has been restored and includes an empty niche above the entrance, a parapet with stone copings, blocked side openings with four-centre arches, and a roof with a battlemented and moulded wallplate. Inside, there is an octagonal font, with a bowl that may be from the 13th century, featuring two shallow blank arches on each face. The 17th-century pulpit has arabesque work carving, and there is an angle piscina in the north sanctuary wall that includes 12th and 13th-century work. Restoration work in 1870 included new nave benches, coloured floor tiles, and the addition of the vestry. The church is graded II* for its surviving medieval fabric.