Parish Church Of St Andrew

The Parish Church of St Andrew is a Grade I listed building located in West Chelborough. The chancel and nave were rebuilt in the 15th century, with the nave being extended to the west during this time. A south tower was added in 1638. The church underwent restoration in the early 19th century and again in 1894 when a north vestry was added.

The church features rubble-stone walls and stone slate roofs, which are topped with stone gable-copings and crosses at the apexes. The chancel has a three-light east window with a roundel in the head, dating from the 19th century. The north and south walls of the chancel have two-light windows with quatrefoils in the heads, set under pointed arches.

In the nave, the north wall contains an early 15th-century window with two trefoiled lights and vertical tracery in a two-centred head with moulded reveals. The south wall has a 15th-century window, altered in the 17th century, featuring two pointed lights with tracery in a two-centred head. There is also a 15th-century south doorway with chamfered jambs and a rebuilt pointed head.

The south tower, which has two stages, features a plain parapet and pinnacles. The ground stage serves as a porch and includes a doorway with ovolo and hollow-chamfered jambs and an elliptical head. The bell chamber has one loop light in the south wall and two in the west wall. A panel on the south parapet bears the inscription: "William Lardar Esq. Thomas Horsford Warden 1638."

Inside, there is a pointed chancel-arch with moulded jambs from the 15th century and 19th-century arch-braced roofs with high collars. Notable fittings include a stone font with a tapering cylindrical bowl adorned with five bands of ornamental designs, including conventional leaves, cable, diaper, zigzag, and small dog-tooth, dating from the mid-12th century. There is also a wall monument featuring a freestone recess and effigy, round-arched with enriched mouldings and strapwork soffit, spandrels with shields-of-arms, and a cornice with damaged female figures, depicting a woman in bed with an infant, dedicated to a member of the Kymer family from the early 17th century. Additionally, there is a wall monument from 1716 and 18th-century communion rails.