Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a parish church largely of the 12th century, with additions and alterations from the 13th, 14th, and 17th centuries. It is constructed of random rubble limestone with a stone slate roof. The church comprises a nave with a south porch and north transept, a west tower, and a chancel.

The south doorway is a fine example of 12th-century work, featuring two orders of chevron decoration to the round arch, the inner chevrons removed from the jambs. A billeted hoodmould is present, and the carved tympanum depicts Christ in Majesty with two angels. The capitals are scalloped, with pellet ornament to the abaci; the shafts are carved, one with a pellet-enriched spiral and the other with chevrons. A 13th-century gabled porch has a square sundial finial, internal stone seats, and a trefoil-headed east image niche. A 14th-century window with Decorated tracery is located to the left of the porch, while a pointed window to the right has a central 17th-century mullion, accompanied by a raking buttress at the junction with the chancel. The blocked arches of a two-bay north arcade each contain a 17th-century pointed window. The north transept has a three-light Decorated window in its parapet-gabled north end, with two 13th-century lancets on each side. The 14th-century two-stage saddleback tower features two-light belfry openings with trefoil heads, and a further opening in the apex of the west gable. Pilaster buttresses are present on the partially roughcast rendered east end of the chancel. A continuous string course rises as a hoodmould above the Early English triplet window. A blocked pointed archway on the north side of the chancel, formerly leading to a chapel, preserves one jamb with two attached shafts under a small lean-to hood; one shaft has a crocket capital, carved grotesque head to the keeled shaft.

The interior has been limeswashed. The nave is dominated by a three-bay north arcade. A 1909 elm nave roof is constructed with king post trusses. A fine Early English chancel arch has clustered shafts with interestingly carved capitals, alongside a contemporary multi-shafted east triplet, also with carved capitals. A 1909 three-bay hammer beam chancel roof is also present. A small north aumbry or piscina recess can be found. The chancel floor is laid with 18th-century ledger slabs belonging to the Saunders, Keble, and Porter families. A hexagonal timber pulpit has Jacobean panels, and a reading desk is dated 1632. A lectern with a vine trail shaft is believed to have originated from Tewkesbury Abbey. A Gothic memorial above the tower doorway commemorates Benjamin Boyes, who died in 1814, and was created by Harvey of Fairford. A 14th-century mortuary recess, now concealed by an organ in the transept, has ballflower enrichment to the cusped canopy.