Parish Church Of St Andrew

The parish church of St Andrew is a building of probable late 13th-century origins, with significant additions and alterations made across the centuries. A south aisle and west tower were added in the 15th century. The church is constructed of coursed rubble chert and limestone, with a roughcast west tower, limestone and Ham Hill stone dressings, and a slate roof, crested ridge tiles being present on the nave only.

The building comprises a west tower, nave, south aisle with a south porch, and a chancel. The west tower has three stages, a moulded string course, a plinth, and battlements with truncated corner pinnacles. A square-section stair turret with a separate south porch, featuring a gable-ended roof, is positioned on the south-east side. Belfry openings are paired, with a three-light Perpendicular window on the west side and a chamfered arch to the doorway, the door itself being possibly contemporary but heavily restored.

The south side has five bays, including the porch. All windows here are originally three-light Perpendicular, largely replaced externally with Ham Hill stone in the 19th century. The porch features diagonal buttresses and a moulded outer arch with a sundial dated 1782 on the gable wall. The inner doorway is a 15th-century composite moulded arch, square-headed above with foliated spandrels. A stair turret, leading to a rood loft, is situated between bays four and five. The chancel has a blocked priest's door and restored two- and four-light Perpendicular windows. A tall, square-headed window, likely from the early 16th century, lights the screen and pulpit on the north side. There are two 19th-century three-light Perpendicular windows and a concave moulded stone wall plate also on the north side.

Inside, the chancel arch is double chamfered and likely from the late 13th century. A Ham Hill stone font of the same period features a circular bowl moulded with fleurons, an octagonal stem, a moulded plinth, and originally detached shafts. A tomb recess holding a half effigy of a priest, likely reset in the 1840s, also dates to the late 13th century. C13 encaustic tiles are now set under the altar table. The south arcade has five bays with wavey moulding to the piers, capitals to the principal shafts only. The tower arch has concave moulding. A wagon roof with ribs, bosses, and wall plate covers the nave and chancel; the nave portion was unceiled in the 1960s. A door to the now destroyed rood loft is from the early 16th century. A piscina and credence table under a pointed arch are likely 15th-century. Some inner tracery and window arches appear to be original 15th-century work. A mid-18th century panelled west gallery exists. An important group of furnishings dating to the 1840s, including benches, stalls, sanctuary rails, commandment boards, sanctuary floor tiling, and patterned and coloured glass in the chancel and west window respectively, is present.