Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is an Anglican parish church located in Wootton Rivers. It dates back to the mid-14th century and underwent significant restoration in 1861 by the architect G.E. Street. The church is constructed from flint and sarsen stone, with limestone dressings, and features a tiled roof adorned with crested ridges and a shingled spire. The nave and chancel are unique in that they do not have a chancel arch. A south gabled porch has a cusped outer arch and was restored to a steeper roof in 1861. The church includes two-light windows with bar tracery and quatrefoiled heads set in very deep moulded reveals, along with a low side window and a three-light reticulated east window, all of which have been extensively restored. There is a clergy door on the south side, and a stone with a fleur de lis and the date 1589 is built into the south wall, alongside some Roman brick. A coped wall on masked corbels separates the roofs of the nave and chancel. A mass dial is located on the southeast window jamb, along with a benchmark. The west tower is timber-framed, featuring quatrefoiled panels and a short broach spire.

Inside, the roof consists of eight bays covering the nave and chancel, likely a restoration of a 17th-century design, with collar beam trusses supported by cusped knee braces and windbraces above and below the purlins. The roof is underdrawn in boarding for three bays of the chancel. Open framework on cast iron columns supports the east side of the tower. Notable fittings include a 14th-century limestone font with a trefoiled arcade and quatrefoils above, a limestone pulpit from 1861 that is pierced with trefoils, and a low stone chancel screen. There is a stoup by the south door and a piscina on both the north and south nave walls. The sill of the southeast window in the chancel has been lowered to serve as sedilia. A stone reredos and choir stalls designed by Street are also present. The clock in the tower, dating from around 1912, holds local significance, and the glass in the east window was installed in 1871.

The church contains eight wall monuments, including a small pink marble tablet from 1900 and seven white marble tablets, one of lozenge form and one pedimented, commemorating Jane Brooks, who died in 1826, and a classical tablet for Thomas Wardner, who died in 1744. There is also a monument to Sir Edward Earle, who died in 1787, along with two 19th to 20th-century brasses. Additionally, there is a book box with a carved front from the early 18th century.