Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is an Anglican parish church with a 13th-century origin, significantly remodelled in the 15th century and subsequently restored in 1825, 1856, and 1950-2. It is constructed of coursed and squared rubble with flush rusticated dressed stone quoins, stone copings, and ashlar dressings. The roof is copper over the nave and slate over the chancel.

The church comprises a nave, chancel, west tower, north and south aisles, and a south porch. Most windows are 3-light openings with Perpendicular cusped tracery under pointed-arched heads, some of which have been renewed in the 19th century, with face stops to the hoodmoulds. A smaller, similar 2-light Perpendicular window is found in the nave clerestory. The east window is 5 lights. The aisles have offset buttresses and blind embattled parapets with crocketted pinnacles. The west tower has two stages and a spire, incorporating offset diagonal buttresses, moulded string courses, a blind embattled parapet with corner pinnacles, 2-light bell openings on three faces, and a large clock face on the east side. Gargoyles are present on the north face only. The west facade features a doorway with deep reveals decorated with two tiers of niches, leading to a plank door. Above this is a 3-light 15th-century window under a pointed head. The octagonal spire tapers and has 2-light ogee-headed openings on alternate faces.

The north aisle includes a polygonal rood stair turret with gargoyles and a figure niche to the parapet. The north doorway is of three orders, featuring 19th-century face stops to the hoodmould and a plank door. The south porch has a 4-centred arched doorway and a 2-leaf plank door. A parvise has 3-light windows with flat heads. The south doorway has fleurons in the jambs and an ogee gable with a large finial.

Inside, the nave has four 13th-century arcades; the south arcade's detached Purbeck shafts were replaced in 1856. Fine face stops are present in the spandrels of the north arcade. A complex moulded tower arch leads to the tower. The barrel roof has been much restored but retains original bosses and intricate tracery to the wall plate. There are fine stone corbels on all faces, one commemorating William Button (Bishop of Bath and Wells 1218-64). A rood loft opening and stair door are on the north wall. The tall chancel arch features wave moulding and face detail halfway up the jambs. The chancel has a 19th-century wagon roof and a double 13th-century piscina on the south wall. The aisles have plaster ribbed vaults with face corbels. A south chapel incorporates a pointed-headed piscina and an Easter sepulchre recess. The church contains a 13th-century font with cable moulding on the bowl, supported by four shafts, as well as a Jacobean font cover. Further furnishings include a 19th-century Early English style pulpit, a 19th-century brass lectern, a fine 15th-century rood screen (with some renewal), 20th-century stained glass in the south aisle windows, and 19th-century glass in the east window with medieval fragments in the top lights.