Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a building of group value, comprising a 12th-century nave, a 13th-century chancel, a 14th-century north aisle and chapel, a 15th-century tower, south aisle, and chapel, and porches dating to around 1500. The church is constructed from a base of knapped flint, with areas of pebble dash render on stone to the aisle and nave clerestory, squared random coursed limestone with roughcast render to the chancel, limestone ashlar to the tower, and lead sheet roofing to the aisle and porch. The north porch has a hood mould on a stone base, featuring a ribbed and studded door. There are three two-light reticulated tracery windows to the aisle and chapel, a lancet window to the chancel, six paired trefoil lancets with flat heads to the clerestory, and a single lancet with a flat head to the clerestory right. The tower, situated to the right, has two stages and a stair turret to the left. It features a trefoil lancet to the base of the second stage and two two-light Perpendicular tracery louvred openings to each side of the top. A battlemented parapet tops the tower. A reconstructed 20th-century bellcote is present to the left return. A three-light Perpendicular tracery window with a two-centre arched head is at the base of the tower on the right return. At the rear, a wooden porch on a stone base is located to the left, alongside three two-light Perpendicular tracery windows with two-centre arched heads to the aisle and chapel, six paired trefoil lancets with flat heads to the clerestory, and a single lancet with a flat hood to the clerestory left. A three-light reticulated tracery window and a three-light Perpendicular tracery window with a two-centre arched head are on the left return, alongside a five-light rectilinear tracery window. The interior includes a 19th-century reredos to the chancel and a trefoil-topped piscina to the right of the altar. A squinch connects to the chapel to the right, and there are arcades of two two-centred arches to the north and south chapels. A cusped piscina is found in the south chapel, likely made from re-used window tracery. The north chapel contains a trefoil piscina with a gabled carving and corbelled bowl. A 15th-century octagonal stone font sits on an octagonal stone base, featuring quatrefoil carving on each side and a rose or amorial shield in the centre, located in the south aisle. The interior also boasts a 15th-century Perpendicular roof with richly carved bosses and shields, along with stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.