Church of St Andrew is a Grade II* listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1955. A Medieval Church.

Church of St Andrew

WRENN ID
crooked-steel-umber
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Swindon
Constituency
Swindon North MP: Will Stone (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1955
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Church of St Andrew, Tadpole Lane, St. Andrews
OS grid reference
SU 136 896
Coordinates
51.60594, -1.80483
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Andrew is a small country church that has medieval traces but was practically rebuilt by architect William Butterfield in 1868. It is constructed of rubble with a red tile roof, displaying a 15th-century style combined with early English elements. The church features a chancel, nave, and south aisle, along with a west bell turret that houses two bells and an unusual spirelet.

The nave consists of three bays and has a central gabled porch on the north side, which includes a quatrefoil vent and trefoil heads on the side buttresses. The pointed doorway, possibly from the 13th century, has a hollow chamfered surround and wrought iron strap hinges. There are two windows in the Perpendicular style: a two-light and a three-light square-headed window with mouchette heads. The lower two-bay chancel has plain ashlar dressed paired lights and a gabled organ vestry to the north. The east window is a three-light geometrical design, featuring a foiled 'rere-arch' inside.

The west front appears to be from a different construction phase, made of rough-faced rubble with ashlar bands. It has a central belfry break with two foiled openings and a crenellated parapet above a nipped roof, topped with a small octagonal spirelet and weathervane. This break is connected by thickened walls and a buttress to a small door on the south-west side, which has a Caernarvon arch. To the right is a foiled vesca-shaped opening, and there is a boiler house and chimney to the south-west.

Inside, there is a reused plain doorway from around 1200, now serving as a niche. The church features a low three-bay arcade from the 13th century, along with a reredos, altar rails, sedilia, and pews designed by Butterfield. The nave roof is of the king post type with foiled braces. The churchyard wall, made of rubble, extends to the south and west, and there is a gabled doorway that was formerly the entrance from the Abbey. Numerous medieval fragments, including sculpted stones and tiles, were discovered during the 1868 renovations, indicating the presence of an earlier church in the Middle Ages.

Local climate

Church of St Andrew receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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