Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is an Anglican church, originally dating to the 12th and 13th centuries, with substantial rebuilding in 1854-5 by T. H. Wyatt. It is constructed primarily of knapped flint with limestone dressings and brick banding, topped with a tiled roof featuring coped verges and finials.

The church consists of a rebuilt three-bay nave, a south aisle, a chancel, and a Lady Chapel, along with a south porch and a south west tower built in 1854. A north vestry and organ chamber were remodelled in 1933. The gabled south porch has both inner and outer pointed doorways with a hood mould and foliated terminals. The south aisle contains a pair of cusped lancet windows, and a single cusped lancet incorporating a stone crucifix and a 1914-18 war memorial. The Lady Chapel features a pair of 13th-century cusped lancets, a pair of trefoiled lancets, and an east window composed of a pair of cusped lancets. The chancel's east window is a three-light Geometric style window with a hood mould and foliated terminals. The vestry has a two-light 16th-century style window to the east, a three-light 16th-century style window to the north, a chamfered square-headed door on the north side, and a single cusped lancet window to the west. The north side of the nave is punctuated by three two-light Geometric style windows, also with hood moulds and foliated terminals. The west window of the nave is a two-light Geometric style window with a multifoil circular window above. The three-stage tower features a pointed west door with a hood mould and foliated terminals, a lancet window to the second stage, and two-light pointed unglazed windows with plate tracery on the north, west, and south sides of the third stage, culminating in a battlemented parapet.

Internally, the three-bay nave has an arch-braced collar truss roof supported by stone corbels. The south arcade comprises two double-chamfered pointed arches on cylindrical piers, dating back to the 13th century. The south aisle has a collar rafter roof. The chancel arch is double-chamfered, springing from square piers with unusual palm-carved capitals, possibly dating to the 17th century. The chancel itself has a braced collar-rafter roof. The two-bay Lady Chapel has two chamfered pointed arches leading to the chancel, supported by square piers of the late 12th century, and features a barrel-vaulted roof, along with a plain piscina on the south wall. Two double-chamfered pointed arches lead to the vestry of 1933 from the chancel. Original Victorian pews remain. Notable fittings include a slate memorial to Charles Hartshorne (died 1644), a large white marble memorial with two classical female figures to John Batt of New Hall (died 1831) by Sir R. Westmacott on the south wall of the nave, and several tablets to the Batt family in the Lady Chapel and nave, including one to Martha Batt (died 1765) signed by F. Brown of Salisbury. Late 19th-century stained glass is found in the Lady Chapel; the east window is signed by Christopher Webb, dated 1937. The church has historically functioned as a Medieval chapel of ease and has never been a parish church.