Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is an Anglican parish church located in Melksham Forest, built in 1876 by Charles Adye. The church is constructed from ashlar stone and features a decorative tiled roof with coped verges, cross finials, and cresting. It is designed in the Early English style and consists of a nave and chancel, with a south door and a north vestry.

The entrance door is set in a pointed roll-moulded arch with a hood mould that has foliated terminals. Above the door, there is a slightly projecting gabled panel featuring a trefoil and a small statue of St Andrew. The nave has three bays, each with two lancet windows that have roll moulding, separated by buttresses. A string course runs below the windows. The chancel, which has a lower roof level, contains two lancets with roll moulding, angle buttresses, and three graded lancets at the east end, also with a string course below.

On the north side of the chancel, there is a gabled vestry porch that features a pointed arched door with a hood mould and a trefoil above, along with a small lancet window in the roof. The west end of the church has two lancets with roll moulding and a trefoil above, while the church room attached to the west wall has two plain lancets and a pointed north door with a hood mould and foliated terminals. A gabled bell cote is situated at the west gable.

Inside, the walls are plain ashlar with a string course below the lancets, and there is no demarcation of bays. The roof features braced collar rafters. The chancel arch, styled after 13th-century designs, has good moulding and grouped shafts on foliated corbels with foliated capitals and a hood mould. A piscina in the north wall has a pointed arch with a hood mould and a corbel adorned with vine carving. The reredos, dating from 1898, is made of pink and white marble and includes three niches with statues of Christ, Mary, and John the Baptist. Marble panels on either side feature finely carved scenes in quatrefoils and naturalistic floral carvings in rectangular panels. The east window contains brightly coloured glass by Powell and Sons, while the nave features stained glass from the early 20th century, with the west windows serving as a memorial to members of the Lopes family of Sandridge Park.