Church of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a building of primarily Norman origin, although it has undergone extensive rebuilding. It is constructed of flint with Bath stone dressings and a tile roof. The exterior was almost entirely rebuilt, but retains a Perpendicular style tower of grey and white “cheque” flint and Bath stone, featuring three stages and a battlemented parapet. The south door has a roll-moulded surround, above which is a Norman window consisting of two lancets within an arched surround with a shell shape in the tympanum. The church was completely restored in 1853 and further restored between 1870 and 1890.

The furnishings are mostly from the 19th century. Surviving from earlier periods is a choir screen, now serving as an organ screen, featuring delicate tracery at the head of each bay and a late Perpendicular archway connecting the chancel to the north chapel. The nave arcades are Early English, with a rebuilt clerestory. The east window is decorated.

A number of monuments are present. In the north aisle is a monument to Anne Clark, wife of Sir John Clark of Walford, Warwickshire (1653), which features a bust within a circular niche with an architrave surround, flanking pilasters, a broken entablature, a segmental pediment with a central cartouche of arms, and a carved base. Two further carved stone armorial monuments adjoin this. A monument, obscured by the organ, has barley sugar columns. In the south aisle is a kneeling figure in a niche, flanked by columns on scroll corbels, and an arched head, commemorating Katherine, Lady Lidcott (1620). Figures from a 16th-century tomb were re-used on the south wall during the 1853 restoration. Located under the tower is the Rich Monument, showing four white marble cherubs supporting a black marble table, upon which rest two large carved urns with inscriptions. Below the table is carved draped fabric and a flat cartouche of arms. Other monuments include one to William Barker of Sonning (1758) by Westmacott, brasses commemorating members of the Barker family from the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries, and a monument to Lord Stowell (1836).