Parish Church Of Saint Andrew

The Parish Church of Saint Andrew is an Anglican church with a 12th-century origin, with a 15th-century tower and porch, and a chancel, vestry, south aisle and chapel dating to circa 1876, designed by G.E. Street. The church is constructed of flint, with stone banding and stone dressings. Its roofs are tiled, with coped gables and ornamental ridges.

The church comprises a nave, a three-bay north aisle, a two-bay north chapel, a chancel with a north vestry, a west tower, and a south porch. The tower has two stages, a battlemented parapet, and diagonal buttresses. A semi-octagonal stair turret is located on the north side. The tower features string courses at the base of the parapet and below the belfry windows, as well as two-light, 15th-century traceried windows to the belfry. The west window is a 19th-century addition of three lights, designed in the 15th-century style, and has a hoodmould. The porch has a moulded, pointed arched opening with a sundial above. The south wall of the nave contains a 19th-century, two-light, square-headed window with arched lights to the west of the porch, and a 16th-century, three-light window of a similar design to the east. The south wall of the chancel includes two 19th-century lancets, and the east window is a re-set 13th-century triple lancet with a hoodmould. The vestry's east wall has a 19th-century triple lancet, and the south wall a single lancet. The north chapel has twin 19th-century lancets. The north aisle wall has two two-light windows with plate tracery. A trefoil-headed door leads to an undercroft in the west wall of the aisle. The inner porch door is from the 12th century, consisting of two orders with chevron and nail-head ornament. It is constructed from alternating Purbeck and Ham stone, creating a polychrome effect, and includes shafts with enriched, scalloped caps. An oak door with ornamental ironwork, possibly by Street, complements the doorway.

Internally, the chancel features a 19th-century pointed waggon roof and a re-set 13th-century piscina in the south wall. Aisle and chapel arcades have circular columns with moulded caps. The original 12th-century chancel arch has been re-set at the vestry entrance and is pointed with chevron ornament. The nave has a 15th-century waggon roof; plaster panels have been removed. Carved bosses and pointed cartouches run along the cornice. The tower arch is 15th century, of segmental pointed form. A 12th-century font, of tub form, with cable moulding, is present, alongside a second 19th-century font in the tower. An early 16th-century monument to John Morton, with a crested canopy and indents of vanished brasses, is located in the north wall of the chancel. Several 18th-century wall monuments to members of the Morton-Pleydell family are found in the vestry, tower, and at the west end of the nave. Contemporary pews, pulpits, and choirstalls complete the interior.