The Parish Church Of St Andrew And St Mary

The Parish Church of St Andrew and St Mary is a parish church with Norman origins, largely dating to the 13th century, and extensively restored in 1880 by J Oldrid Scott, who also added a vestry. The church is constructed of sandstone rubble with a roof of Horsham slabs, the chancel being tiled and broached, and the spire shingled.

The church comprises a four-bay nave, north and south transepts, a south porch, a west tower, a chancel, and a vestry. The three-stage west tower features paired round-headed arches with colonnettes at the top, lancets with leaded lights on the middle stage, and an arched doorcase with a hoodmoulding. Large diagonal buttresses are also present. The nave has a clerestory with trefoil arched windows, while the aisles have restored triple trefoliated windows. A gabled south porch features an arched doorcase with a hoodmoulding and blank spandrels. The roof incorporates queenposts and cusped braces. A stoup is also present.

The south transept has two lancets to the east and a paired lancet with a cinquefoil above to the south. The chancel was rebuilt by J Oldrid Scott using snecked rubble, incorporating six lancets and a triple traceried east window with three roundels. The vestry projects from the chancel and has two lancets on each face. The north transept has two lancets and a pointed arched west doorway, though the north face is obscured by the late 18th-century Sheffield Mausoleum, constructed in sandstone with a tiled roof. The mausoleum's north end features a cinquefoil roundel and arched doorway, alongside lancets to the side. The north aisle mirrors the south aisle’s windows but features central pointed arched doorcases.

Inside, a Norman arch with zig-zag moulding leads to a timber-framed bell cage, potentially dating back to around 1340 when the spire was added. The nave has an early 13th-century four-bay arcade with round piers and arches with two slight chamfers. The roof features five crown posts. Notable interior features include achievements of the Neville family, an early 18th and 17th century octagonal wooden pulpit with strapwork decoration, an alabaster effigy of Richard Leche, who died in 1596, a brass memorial to Sir Edward or Walter Dalyngrigge and his wife (circa 1386) set upon a stone plinth with cinquefoil niches, surmounted by a stone unicorn and shield, and a tombstone to Petrus Denot, a Glover from Bethersden (circa 1450) featuring brass gloves and a 13th-century monumental tablet. The north transept, more heavily restored, includes a Decorated piscina and hagioscope. The Sheffield Mausoleum contains the tomb of Edward Gibbon, who died in 1794, and was buried by his friend, John, Lord Sheffield. A late 15th-century rood screen, with base and canopy, was restored in the 19th century. The chancel restoration of 1880 retained an organ built in 1881 by Foster and Andrews. A piscina and triple sedilia are also present, along with pews and a font dating from around 1880.