Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a parish church largely dating to the 12th century, with a 13th-century tower, a 14th and 15th-century nave, and an 18th-century south porch. It was restored in 1884. The church is constructed primarily of flint, partly rendered, and has a plain tiled roof. It comprises a chancel, nave, west tower, and south porch.

The three-stage tower has a string course to the parapet and simple chamfered lancet windows, with a chamfered west doorway. The south porch is of flint and red brick, featuring a kneelered gable and a rusticated stone arch with an acanthus-enriched keystone. A renewed south doorway retains fragments of a 12th-century chip-carved tympanum. 12th-century lancets survive, particularly in the north nave wall, alongside 13th-century lancets in the chancel and a buttressed south nave wall. A renewed 15th-century Perpendicular three-light East window has a small trecusped 15th-century lancet above.

Inside, the tower is accessed via a wide, plain, chamfered arch resting on abaci with chamfered jambs. The reveals of 12th-century lancets are visible on the north wall, along with a blocked north doorway. Pointed arched recesses are located to the north and south of the east end; a 19th-century crown post roof is also present. The 14th-century chancel arch is double-chamfered, with the inner order resting on octagonal responds with moulded capitals. The chancel features a 14th-century trussed rafter roof.

Notable fittings include a water stoup by the south door, 19th-century chancel fittings with a twisted brass altar rail, an arcaded altar table, a painted and mosaic reredos depicting Christ in a central mandorla flanked by incense-swinging angels, a screen, and choir stalls. An 18th-century octagonal pulpit features plain raised and fielded panelled sides. The font is 12th-century, with a square arcaded bowl on five shafts. The Royal Arms of William III were re-hung under the tower arch after restoration in 1979.

The church contains medieval glass, including three shields and a rose in the chancel north lancet, along with a 15th-century St Andrew window in the east gable lancet. A 1597 tower window was created by Holiday, with the remainder dating to 1896-1906 by Kempe.

Memorials include a brass to Richard Fogg of Dane Court, who died in 1598; a plaque on the south chancel wall depicting Fogg and his wife kneeling on patterned flooring, with a shield supported on pillars and his children below; a wall tablet to Michael Hatton of Dane Court, who died in 1776; a wall tablet to Edward Royds Rice of Dane Court, who died in 1878, in a 17th-century style; a wall tablet to Henry Edward Harcourt, who died in 1944, also in an imitation 17th-century style; and a bronze wall plaque to Reverend Robert Twigg, who died in 1880, decorated in forms almost Art Nouveau.