Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a parish church dating from the 14th century, with a clerestory added in the 15th century. It was restored in 1890 (to the tower) and 1903. The church is constructed of flint rubble with stone dressings, while the chancel and south aisle are rendered. The nave and aisle have leaded roofs, and the chancel has plain tiles.

The west tower is square with three stages and an embattled parapet. The west face features heavy angle buttresses, between which is a tall arched opening, believed to be later, to illuminate the renewed 3-light west nave window. Above the window are three trefoil-headed niches, with single niches at the same level to the north and south. The belfry has 2-light openings with large louvres installed in 1890. The five-bay aisles have good original 2-light windows, and 3-light windows to the east, one of which has been renewed.

The south doorway is particularly fine, with jambs comprising three orders of shafts with foliage capitals. The moulded arch has a richly carved band of foliage, and the hoodmould is similarly enriched with foliage and a large, though mutilated, corbel. The carving retains much of its original colour, and the doorway has original traceried doors. A good porch features flushwork panels on each side of the entrance, with remains of more elaborate flushwork above. The porch has a moulded arch with foliage capitals and intact 2-light side windows. The nine-bay clerestory has 2-light windows divided by square flushwork panels. The three-bay chancel has 2-light segmental-headed side windows, largely original, with hoodmoulds and finials linked to form a string course. The 5-light east window has renewed tracery and is flanked by crocketted pinnacles below which are cusped ogee niches.

Internally, the 5-bay arcades have quatrefoil piers and moulded capitals. The chancel arch is similar, although the capitals are mutilated. The nave has a fine late 15th century roof in ten bays, consisting of alternate double hammer-beam and arched-braced trusses, with considerable enrichment, including brattishing, some of which has been renewed. The easternmost bay is boarded as a canopy of honour. The aisle roofs have been largely renewed, and the chancel ceiling is boarded, with a renewed roof. A fine piscina has an enriched arch, and a similar triple arch over the adjoining drop-sill sedilia is only one-third complete. In the north aisle is an ogee-arched tomb recess. The font has an octagonal bowl with trefoil-arched panels, and around the stem (which is not contemporary with the bowl) are eight human figures. The nave retains 14 simple medieval benches with flat ends; one 15th century bench has good carved poppyhead ends. An early 17th century carved pulpit and turned altar rails are also present. Some medieval stained glass remains, notably in the heads of four north clerestorey windows.