Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St. Andrew is a parish church with medieval origins; the chancel was restored in 1881. It comprises a nave, chancel, south aisle, west tower, south porch, and a west Galilee porch. The church is built of flint rubble with some stone and brick, and features stone dressings. The nave and chancel are covered by plaintiled roofs.

The round tower, dating from the 11th century or earlier, has several later blocked lancet windows. The 14th-century belfry stage is octagonal, with openings on four faces alternating with dummy openings in flushwork, and a crenellated parapet with flushwork panels.

The Early English Galilee porch, largely restored, has a wide segmental entrance arch, almost semi-circular, and trefoil-headed side windows. The north wall of the nave is from the 12th century, with two 2-light Perpendicular windows. The south aisle features two restored Y-tracery windows and an original 2-light west window with blocked tracery. In the early 18th century, a one-bay addition at the east end of the aisle was removed, and the east aisle and south chancel walls were infilled, resulting in single mullion and transom windows being added to each. A south porch was added in 1891. The 14th-century chancel has a large 3-light east window with renewed tracery in the 19th century, and a similarly large north window which is now blocked. Both windows are shafted internally. The east end of the chancel retains original flushwork panelling to the plinth.

Inside, there is a 4-bay aisle arcade and a 6-bay nave roof, likely dating from the 17th century, along with a 4-bay arched-braced chancel roof largely rebuilt in 1881. The aisle roof is partly original, with traceried spandrels in the bracing. A semi-circular headed recess with a 12th-century chevron-moulded arch is found in the north-east nave, possibly the tomb of a church founder. The aisle includes a 14th-century piscina with a cusped and pinnacled ogee arch enriched with foliage and set against a canopied background with panelling, as well as a drop-sill sedila. The late 14th-century octagonal font has depictions of four lions against the stem and angels on the underside of the bowl, the carved bowl panels of which are now lost. An inscribed and quatrefoil-tracery decorated step forms the base. A faded painting of St. Christopher is on the north nave wall. A small amount of 15th-century woodwork with remains of traceried panels is incorporated into a screen below the tower arch. Four nave benches have 15th-century poppyhead ends, and five others have similar, though later, ends. The arms of William IV are displayed over the south doorway.