Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a parish church largely of medieval origin, with later additions and a restoration by R.M. Phipson in 1883. It is constructed of flint with a plain tile roof. The church comprises a west tower, a south porch, a nave, and a chancel.

The west tower dates from around 1436 and has three stages with diagonal buttresses. It features flushwork panels on the base course, buttress faces, and parapet. The west door has spandrel panels, corbel heads, and attached shafts. A three-light Perpendicular window with tracery is positioned above a two-light window with Curvilinear tracery. Rectangular sound holes are present to the north and south, with two-light belfry openings featuring Curvilinear tracery. A stepped battlemented parapet is topped with seated figures acting as pinnacles. A 19th-century porch with diagonal buttresses is located on the south side, with a niche above the doorway. Both the east and west windows of the south side are two-light affairs, with gabled parapets above.

Inside the church, a 14th-century doorway has hood mould stops in the form of heads. The three-bay nave has off-set buttresses and 19th-century two-light windows: 'Y' tracery to the north, and Curvilinear tracery to the south. A parapet gable features a cross finial. The two-bay Norman chancel has 19th-century off-set buttresses. A light stone ovolo moulded window of around 1722 is present, along with a blocked 13th-century priest’s door, a 13th-century lancet, and a 14th-century 'Y' traceried window to the south. A 13th-century lancet is found to the north. A three-light Perpendicular window is situated to the east, flanked by two blocked 13th-century lancet windows. The eaves and roof have been raised.

The interior is largely 19th century. A Perpendicular tower arch is supported by grotesque corbel heads. A 14th-century piscina is set into the south aisle wall, featuring a cusped ogee arch. The chancel arch dates from the Early 14th century, also resting on corbel heads. A double recessed tomb from the late 13th century features effigies of Sir William Gerbygge and his Lady. The knight is depicted in chain mail and surcoat, holding his heart; the Lady wears a wimple. Heraldry is displayed on the tomb base. Above the tomb, arches with cusped and sub-cusped Geometric tracery are found in the spandrels, with colonnettes displaying sculpted capitals. There are dropped sill sedilia and a piscina with a 13th-century pointed arch with a recess above. A 14th-century coffin lid is set into the chancel floor to the south. Wall paintings from the 14th century are visible on the north nave wall, illustrating the Three Quick and the Three Dead, St Christopher, and eight panels depicting the Seven Works of Mercy and the Resurrection. A 17th-century octagonal pulpit with a matching lectern completes the interior.