Church of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is an Anglican parish church, dating to the 12th century, with significant additions and alterations in the 14th and early 15th centuries. It was restored in 1856 by G.E. Street, in 1877 by Sir Arthur Blomfield, and again in 1902. The church is constructed of flint and brick with limestone dressings, and has tiled roofs.

The church includes a 12th-century nave with aisles and a south porch built in 1877. A chancel, heavily restored in 1856, incorporates a vestry. A west tower is also present. The aisle windows are mostly 19th-century replacements, consisting of two- and three-light square-headed designs. The chancel has 14th-century style two-light windows with three- and four-foiled heads, and a three-light east window. The rectangular west tower has three stages, with angle buttresses and a large three-light west window. A pigeon opening with ledges and a stair is located in the south-east corner, and the tower is topped with a crenellated parapet and corner pinnacles.

Inside, the 15th-century inner door is four-centred with two hollow chamfered edges. The nave is plastered. There are late 12th-century arcades of three bays, featuring round columns and square abaci to varied scalloped capitals. A 19th-century roof spans three bays, with lean-to aisles extending under the roof’s continuation. The chancel arch dates to 1877 and sits on stretched corbels. The open timber roof in the chancel has four bays, arch braces, and moulded purlins. The sill of the south-east window has been lowered to create a sedilia, with a piscina on the south side and a holy vessel shelf on the north. An organ chamber opening is on the north side, and the tower incorporates a dovecote around the walls of the middle stage.

Fittings are primarily 19th-century, including a simple stone cup bowl font on a column, a carved oak pulpit, a panelled reredos, a sanctuary rail, choir stalls, and pews. The west window contains glass by Ward and Hughes from 1887, and the east window is from 1878.

Monuments include two 20th-century polished terrazzo tablets in the nave, commemorating Reverend Arthur Brown and Reverend Philip Ormsby, both dated 1961. A brass in the chancel, dated 1631, is dedicated to Edward Saintmaur (Seymour), aged 11 months, and includes an epitaph and engraved portrait, along with three other 19th-century brasses. A painted stone tablet in the north aisle commemorates John Vincent, who died in 1756. A white and grey marble tablet by King of Bath in the organ chamber is dedicated to Reverend William Tomlins, who died in 1788. Under the tower is a charity board, dated 1862, recording a legacy of £3 a year from George Hooper to the oldest widows of the parish.