Church Of St Andrew

Church of St Andrew

Parish church dating from the 12th to 15th centuries, with the chancel rebuilt in 1828 and the whole building restored in 1867. The church is built of coursed and squared ironstone with plain tile, copper, stone, slate and lead roofs. It comprises a west tower, nave with clerestory and aisles, chancel, and north and south porches.

The two-stage west tower dates from the early 14th century and features a plinth, string courses, and a mask corbel table with two angle buttresses. The first stage has a restored ogee triple lancet with intersecting tracery, hood mould and mask stops on the west side, a single 14th-century lancet above it and a clock higher still. The south side has a single 14th-century lancet. The second stage has on each side an ogee double lancet opening with Y-tracery and hood mould. An octagonal broach spire with two tiers of gabled lucarnes on the cardinal faces is topped with a wind vane dated 1867.

The parapeted clerestory has three 15th-century ogee double lancets with flat-headed reveals on each side. The three-bay north aisle has a plinth, two diagonal buttresses and coped ends. Either side of the porch are 15th-century triple lancets with flat heads, hood moulds and mask stops. To the right of the west window are two early 19th-century slate tablets. The west end has a restored Decorated double lancet and the east end a cusped triple lancet, both with flat heads and hood moulds. The east end also has an ogee triple lancet and the south side has two similar lancets to the east. The west end has a double lancet surrounded by seven slate tablets dating from the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

The two-bay chancel has a coped east gable, angle buttresses and a sill band. The north side has a restored 13th-century doorway with hood mould and a small chamfered light to its right. The east end has a 14th-century five-light lancet with intersecting tracery, hood mould and mask stops, with a late 18th-century tablet below it. The south side has a central coped datestone dated 1828, flanked by single 19th-century double Decorated lancets with hood moulds.

The 14th-century north porch has a coped gable with kneelers, a moulded doorway with hood mould and mask stops, and a single light in each side. The interior contains stone benches and arched tie-beams with bosses, together with an early 14th-century roll-moulded doorway with double shafts. The restored south porch has a coped gable with flanking buttresses and a chamfered flat-headed doorway. The east side contains a tiny re-set 13th-century single lancet. The interior has stone benches, an 18th-century common rafter roof, and a reset datestone dated 1892. A 12th-century inner doorway features zigzag and lozenge moulding with shafts topped by scallop capitals and a hood mould. The 14th-century tower arch is triple chamfered with octagonal responds. The west window contains 19th-century stained glass.

The three-bay nave arcades date from the early 14th century and have octagonal piers with square bases to the north and octagonal bases to the south. Octagonal capitals are present throughout. Double chamfered arches with hood moulds and mask stops occur on the south side only. The north side has a pointed rood loft door to the east over a segmental 19th-century organ opening. The restored 15th-century roof has arch braces and wall shafts on beast and mask corbels. The aisles have restored moulded 15th-century roofs with wall shafts and bosses in the north aisle. The north aisle west-end window contains 15th-century glass fragments. The south aisle east window has similar fragments dating from around 1420 and 1500. A central memorial window by Morris & Company dates from 1919. A blocked 14th-century rood loft doorway is located in the north-east corner.

The early 14th-century double-chamfered chancel arch has octagonal responds. The chancel north side has a shuttered low-side window to the left and an ogee aumbry to the right. The east end contains stained glass by Powell dated 1855. The south-east window has two 19th-century seats in the opening and stained glass from around 1900. The south-west window has 19th-century stained glass in the head.

Fittings include a 14th-century font with panelled stem, shafts and an octagonal bowl with nodding ogee-headed panels. A 19th-century ashlar pulpit is executed in 14th-century style. 19th-century benches and stalls feature fleur-de-lys ends. A mid-18th-century chest is also present.

Memorials include a round-headed niche containing a praying frontal demi-figure with brass tablet on the apron, commemorating Reverend Robert Bolton (1631); a scrolled oval medallion containing a painted demi-figure with tablet on apron, bracket and crest, commemorating Harrold Kynnesman (1631); a marble and slate Classical tablet (1790); and a scrolled marble obelisk-shaped tablet with crest and inscribed roundel (1772).