Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a parish church dating back to the 13th century, with significant restoration work carried out in 1877 by Waller and Son. It is constructed of random rubble limestone, with a timber-framed belfry featuring a shingle roof and a stone slate roof. The church comprises a nave with a north aisle, a west tower, a south porch, a north vestry, and a chancel.

The restored south doorway from the 19th century includes a bracket and a stoup in the wall to the left. The 14th-century porch has a pointed-arched opening in its parapet gable, featuring offset buttresses and a slit window in the west wall. The south nave wall shows evidence of alterations, including a raised stone base and a blocked doorway with a flat hood, possibly indicating the former position of an external pulpit. The windows on either side of the porch are 2-light openings with trefoil-headed lights, with the window on the left being a 19th-century restoration.

The tower has been heavily altered but retains some 13th-century masonry, including a 13th-century lancet window on the south wall and a slit window high in the west wall. The belfry features diagonally braced framing with 2-light timber belfry openings, each fitted with shingle louvres, and a low sprocketted spire. The east end of the chancel has a rebuilt 19th-century parapet gable, with a row of three lancet windows above a moulded string course and clasping corner buttresses. The south chancel wall contains two 19th-century lancets, while the plinth incorporates older masonry.

The north aisle has a central pointed-arched doorway flanked by 2-light windows with trefoil heads in square-headed openings with hoodmoulds. The north vestry has a gable featuring a 19th-century two-light pointed-arched window with uncarved stops to the hoodmould.

Inside, the church has undergone extensive 19th-century restoration, including a two-bay north aisle arcade with octagonal piers. A 19th-century four-bay rafter and purlin nave roof and a wagon roof to the aisle are also present. The low, pointed chancel arch has mouldings that die into the responds. A three-bay tie-beam and arched-braced collar-truss chancel roof is panelled over the altar. A painted mural is located on the east wall. A trefoil-headed south piscina is set at a low level due to the raised altar steps. Arches have been added between the organ chamber and the north aisle, and between the organ chamber and the chancel. An unusually well-preserved 14th-century octagonal stone font features a shield in each panel. Other furnishings include 19th-century pews, choir stalls and a pulpit. Late 18th- and early 19th-century memorial tablets commemorating members of the MORSE family are found in the tower. The church also contains stained glass from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.