Church of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a building of group value, dating back to the 12th century, with significant additions from the 19th century (1853-1886) and a restoration in 1902. It is located in Cobham, Borough of Elmbridge. The church is constructed of flint, with puddingstone to the west, and carstone dressings. The south aisle has a pebble-dashed exterior. The roof is tiled, with a wood-shingled broach spire atop the west tower. The building comprises a nave with aisles, a south porch, and a chancel with chapels.

The west tower features renewed two-light bell openings in the first stage and three-light trefoil-headed windows to the aisles. The east window has intersecting tracery. A timber-framed south porch has curved bargeboards. The south door is Norman, with jamb shafts, three-scalloped capitals, an order of zig-zag, an inner roll moulding, and an outer hood moulding of billets.

Inside, the nave has four bays, with octagonal piers supporting the south arcade and quatrefoil piers on the north side. The inner arch sits on unmoulded imposts and features a scalloped frieze. The chancel arch displays roll moulding. The roof of the north aisle is supported by crown-post trusses. A two-bay chancel is separated from a round-pier arcade to the north, with a blocked lancet from the 12th century in the north chancel wall.

Notable fittings include a 19th-century stone font, octagonal and set on a quatrefoil pier, a round-arched pulpit on a square pier with attached columns, and a three-arched screen in the north chancel chapel. A triangular piscina is set into the south chancel wall. The east window is in a Pre-Raphaelite style.

Several monuments are present. In the north chancel chapel, a brass plate commemorates A Cooper, who died in 1618. The chancel’s south wall holds an engraved brass plate depicting the Nativity, dating from the 17th century. The south chancel chapel displays a monument to William Henry Cooper, who died in 1840, constructed of grey and white marble in a Greek Revival style, featuring a semi-reclining figure with a female angel. A 17th-century brass depicts a standing knight in armour. The south aisle contains a tomb to Fleix Buckley, who died in 1823, in grey and white marble, also in a Greek Revival style with a pediment, scrolls, and cill palmettes. A monument to Andrew Ramsay Kerr, who died in 1799, is a grey marble obelisk inscribed "NOLLEKENS F." A chest tomb marks the grave of Agnes Hamilton, who died in 1772, constructed of brown marble on a grey marble base with brackets. A white marble oval urn, adorned with fluting and a scroll band, sits atop a cartouche crest.