Church Of St Andrew, With Boundary Wall

The Church of St Andrew is an Anglican parish church dating from 1879, designed by the architect C.R. Crickmay. It was built as a memorial to lives lost in the wrecks of the 'Avalanche' and 'Forest' in September 1877, and is often referred to as "the Avalanche church." The church is constructed of rock-faced coursed stone with ashlar dressings, topped with a bright red clay tile roof. Its design is in a simple Early English style, characterized by lancet windows, buttresses, and coped gables.

The west front features three stepped lancet windows above a statue niche, surmounted by a double bellcote. A projecting north porch has double plank doors under a statue niche; alongside it sits a boiler house featuring a stone stack. The north side of the nave has two pairs of cusped lancet windows. The chancel has a triple lancet window, and the east end is distinguished by three stepped lancets culminating in a stepped moulded drip course that runs across the gable width. The south front includes three single lancets to the chancel and a 2:3:2 arrangement of lancets to the nave. The baptistry, now used as a vestry, has a single lancet to the east and west, and a triple lancet to the south.

Inside, the unplastered nave has four bays with arch-braced trusses and two purlins, along with simple wind bracing; principal rafters extend down to stone corbels. Windows are set within deep embrasures with flat segmental heads, and the walkways have quarry tile flooring. A double-chamfered segmental-pointed chancel arch leads into a chancel with a boarded ceiling. The north side has lancet windows with colonnette screens, plastered walls, and a decorative tile floor. A round stone pulpit sits on short marble columns. The font is located at the west end of the nave. The church contains C19 stained glass in all windows except those on the south side of the nave near the chancel arch. Notably, there is centenary glass by Jon Callan of Southwell from 1981, and a window formerly blocked by a pipe organ, which was removed in 1974, remains. The former baptistry, now a vestry, has a boarded ceiling and heavy marble columns to the responds, with a parclose screen repositioned within the nave. A model of the 'Avalanche' is set into a glazed recess on the north side of the nave, along with artefacts recovered from the wreck, displayed in the porch.

A boundary wall, constructed of rock-faced masonry with weathered coping, acts as a retaining structure and varies in height. Square gate piers with moulded pyramidal cappings stand opposite the north porch, while a simpler opening is located at the head of a flight of steps on the south side. The church is in a well-maintained condition and occupies a prominent position, serving as an important reminder of the historical dangers of the coastline.