Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a parish church, largely dating to the mid-14th century, with an upper stage of the tower and the rebuilding of the south chapel in the 15th century. A restoration and partial rebuilding of the chancel occurred in 1844. The church is constructed mainly of flint and rubble walls with ashlar dressings. The nave and chancel have tiled roofs with stone copings bearing finials, while the south chapel roof is stone slated; the north chapel roof is hidden behind a parapet.

The plan includes a nave, chancel, west tower, north chapel, and south chapel that incorporates a porch. The two-stage west tower is distinguished by strings, with the upper stage featuring a north gargoyle. It also has a hollow-chamfered plinth, an embattled parapet, diagonal and square-set buttresses, a vice turret with a pyramidal stone roof, a three-light reticulated west window under a two-centred head with a returned label, and bell openings of two lights under two-centred heads with pierced stone panels. Most windows are two or three-ogee headed with trefoiled lights set under square heads. The east chancel window, similar to the west window, dates to the 19th century. A south nave window is of three lights with panel tracery under a square head, featuring a label with stops bearing carved initials. The south chapel’s south window has a shallow triangular head and is of three lights with panel tracery and a label with carved head stops. The east window of the south chapel is of three lights with panel tracery under a two-centred head. The south porch has a segmental pointed door of two chamfered orders. The south nave door has a chamfered, four-centred head with continuous jambs.

Inside, the chapel and tower arches are two-centred with two chamfered orders and flat responds, while the chancel arch dates to the 19th century with a flat soffit and jambs formed of reused window mullions. A wooden chapel screen is dated 1619. There’s also an 18th-century fielded wooden pulpit with a cornice and a 17th-century turned communion rails. Some benches are possibly from the 16th century and have been restored. A round stone font likely dates from around 1200 and sits on a 20th-century base. A cinquefoiled ogee-headed niche is set into the porch, along with 18th, 19th and 20th-century monuments, some early glass, and various reset fragments of medieval carving. The south chapel and nave have 19th-century waggon roofs, the chancel has an arch-braced collar roof, and the north chapel has a flat boarded roof. Some possibly 16th-century tiles are also present, alongside a stoup in the east jamb of the south doorway.