Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a parish church located in an isolated position off the road. It dates from the 13th and 14th centuries and was extensively restored in 1868 at the sole expense of the then incumbent, the Reverend E.R. Benyon. The church comprises a nave and chancel, a south tower that serves as a porch, and a north vestry. The tower is constructed of rubble flint, while the nave and chancel are primarily made of kidney flint, featuring freestone dressings and quoins. The roofs are covered with plain tiles.

On the south side of the nave, there is evidence of a blocked earlier window, and the rubble is coursed at the bottom of the wall. The north doorway features a simple pointed 13th-century arch with continuous mouldings, and there are two lancet windows on the north wall of the chancel, although the remaining window tracery has been replaced in the Victorian style. The south doorway, dating from the early 14th century, also has continuous mouldings, and the surrounding arch, which is part of the north wall of the tower, displays several 18th-century graffiti marks. The 14th-century tower was added to the south because the west end of the nave is too close to the boundary of the churchyard to accommodate it there. The tower has three stages, with 19th-century flushwork panels around the base and south doorway, diagonal buttresses, and a plain embattled parapet. A scratch-dial is located on a projecting square-set block of stone at the bottom of the second stage of the south-east buttress.

The interior has been heavily restored, with the roof, benches, and font all renewed. However, there is a fine set of late 17th-century altar rails featuring barley-sugar twist balusters, along with a short flight of steps leading up to the pulpit, which has the same balusters. The pulpit is a handsome Baroque design, hexagonal in shape, with panelled sides, winged cherub heads supporting the base, and acanthus-leaf decoration around the top. It is said to have come from St. James' Church in Bury St. Edmunds and has been adapted with mid-Victorian applied panels in Gothic style and a renewed stone base. Additionally, there are large painted and framed arms of William III on the south wall.