Church Of St Andrew

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.