Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a redundant parish church with medieval origins, featuring significant phases from the early 14th century and early 16th century. It consists of a nave, chancel, and a south-west tower/porch. The structure is built from random flint rubble with freestone dressings. The chancel roof is covered with plain tiles, while the nave roof is low pitched and leaded. The gables have parapets, and the east chancel gable is adorned with grotesque carved corbels, likely from the early 14th century.

The early 14th-century tower includes a deeply-chamfered doorway and two cusped side windows in the porch. The inner doorway is also moulded and original, featuring a sanctuary ring with a grotesque boss. Additional 14th-century moulded doorways are located to the north of the nave and to the south of the chancel, the latter having grotesque drips on the hoodmould. The nave has a medieval camberbeam roof, possibly from the late 14th century but restored in the 19th century, consisting of three bays with chamfered arch braces to each tiebeam, supported by wallpieces with stone corbels featuring well-carved grotesques.

Inside, there is a wide 14th-century chancel arch with piers and moulded capitals, and a 14th-century stoup by the nave doorway. Various alterations from around 1500 or the early 16th century include fragmentary tracery in the belfry windows and a red brick tower parapet. The nave and chancel have 2-light windows, some with 19th-century restored tracery, and a cusped piscina in the chancel. The early 16th-century chancel roof consists of two bays with arch-braced principals and bracing up to the ridge, lacking collars. The arch-braces spring from polygonal wall-pieces with carved capitals, and the cornice is moulded and embattled.

The church also features a mid-14th-century octagonal limestone font with simple mouldings, and a set of six benches from around 1500 in the chancel, which have well-crafted poppyhead ends, some depicting animals or turrets. The chancel contains nine marble floor slabs, including one commemorating Peter Preston (1616), his wife Thomasin (1617), and son Peter (1631), which has had its brass removed, and another dated 1675, with the rest from the 18th century. There is also a slab in the nave with a brass for Frances Dade (1615) and another from 1720. At the time of the survey, the building was in deteriorating condition.