Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is an Anglican parish church, originally of the 12th century but largely rebuilt in 1858 by William Butterfield, with an addition to the north organ chamber in 1882. The church is constructed of English bond brick with bands of vitrified bricks, limestone dressings, and a tiled roof. The plan includes a nave, south aisle, south transept, chancel, north organ chamber, and north porch. The gabled porch features a timber-framed gable with wavy bargeboards and small lancet windows. The north side of the nave has two 2-light geometric tracery windows with polychrome stone arches, with a moulded string course at sill level. The gabled organ chamber has diagonal buttresses, two cusped lancets, and a chamfered shouldered doorcase to the north, with a lean-to to the left also possessing cusped lancets. The east end has a large 3-light geometric tracery window with a hoodmould and a decorative brick cross above, flanked by angle buttresses. The south side of the chancel displays a 3-light plate tracery window. The south transept has a 2-light geometric window with a hoodmould and small lights above, alongside a lean-to with a chamfered shouldered doorcase and strap hinges. The south aisle has no south-facing windows and a catslide roof of two pitches, while the west end of the aisle contains a cusped lancet. The west end also holds two geometric windows and a large central buttress that rises to an octagonal bellcote with lancets, quatrefoils, and an oak-shingled conical roof.

Inside the porch, a scissor-rafter roof sits above a reset late 12th-century doorway, featuring shafts with simple volute capitals, nailhead ornament, a round arch with a roll, and double 19th-century doors with decorative hinges. The nave displays a polychrome tiled floor, a 12th-century sculpture of two figures above the north doorway, and a 4 ½ bay roof with arch-braced collar, clasped purlins, and arched windbracing. The south aisle is defined by two chamfered pointed arches springing from a cylindrical pier, and the south transept has a plastered wagon roof and a collection of 18th-century memorial tablets, predominantly to the Eyre family of Landford Manor. One tablet on the west wall commemorates Elizabeth Eyre, who died in 1758, and another on the east wall honors Robert Eyre, who died in 1793. A double-chamfered pointed chancel arch rests on half-conical corbels, and the chancel features an arched-braced collar roof and a polychrome tile frieze. The south wall of the chancel includes a sedilia and piscina. All fittings are by Butterfield, apart from the glass. A simple limestone octagonal font, along with a wooden pulpit, pews, and choir stalls, are also present, as is a marble reredos from 1879. The windows contain good stained glass, including the east window (1861) by Lavers and Barraud, and windows of 1858 and 1870 designed by N. H. J. Westlake, with tracery by J. M. Allen. The church was rebuilt at a cost of £1490.