Church of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is an Anglican parish church. The west tower dates to the 15th century, while the remainder of the church was rebuilt between 1907 and 1909 by Sir Frank Wills. The tower is constructed of closely jointed squared and dressed stone, while the rest of the church is rockfaced rubble with ashlar dressings. The church includes a nave, chancel, west tower, north and south aisles, and a south porch.

The tower is tall and comprises four stages, featuring set-back buttresses and moulded string courses. A polygonal stair turret rises at the northeast corner, topped with a crocketed pyramidal cap and pierced quatrefoil lozenge parapet with crocketted pinnacles. The west face of the tower has a deeply moulded pointed-arched doorway leading to an early 20th century two-leaf plank door, and a tall four-light window above with a pointed head. The second stage includes an aedicula with crocketed side shafts and canopy, housing a statue of Christ as the Good Shepherd. The third stage features two-light blind windows on both north and south faces. The bell stage has pointed-arched openings with panelled blind tracery, with crocketted shafts between them and at the corners, developing from the buttresses.

The remainder of the church is in a mechanical Perpendicular style with three-light windows and pierced trefoil triangular parapets featuring slender crocketted pinnacles and gargoyles.

Inside, the nave has fine four-bay arcades with wave-moulded pointed arches and foliage capitals, exhibiting a style closer to Decorated than Perpendicular. The tower’s arch has two orders of wave moulding and a fan vault to the bell chamber. Rafter roofs are present throughout. The chancel south wall contains a piscina with a 12th century frieze depicting the Four Evangelists under canopies. Contemporary fittings from 1907-9 include a font, pulpit, rood screen, chancel screens, a tower arch screen, and pews. Several wall monuments have been reset under the tower; a royal coat of arms is on the north wall of the tower, alongside a painted wooden panel dated 1826. The north tower arch jamb is framed by a letter from approximately 1767, written by the Reverend Augustus Toplady. A particularly fine set of stained glass windows, dating from the church's rebuilding, depicts Old Testament figures in the north aisle and New Testament figures in the south aisle.