Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a church dating to the mid-12th century, around 1200, with significant alterations in the mid- and late-14th century. It is constructed of sandstone rubble with a stone slate roof. The church consists of a 3-bay nave with a north aisle and west porch, a 3-bay chancel with a north vestry and heating chamber. A plinth runs around the base, and quoins mark the corners.

The west porch has a coursed stone, square doorway with a timber lintel and ashlar coping to the left. A chamfered single-light window is in the west wall. Inside the porch, a stone bench sits along the west wall. Outside the west wall of the church, seven ashlar steps lead to a former gallery, and a plank door in an ashlar surround with straight tooling. A chamfered single-light window flanked by 20th-century triangular buttresses completes the west wall. The south side of the nave includes a 19th-century window of two trefoiled lights, a blocked doorway dating back to around 1140, two windows of two trefoiled lights, and ashlar coping, with a double bellcote on the east gable.

The north aisle features, from the east, a 19th-century window of two cinquefoiled lights, a chamfered single-light window, a blocked, quoined segmental-arched doorway, and a stepped buttress. The west window is a double-chamfered single-light. The chancel, dating to the mid-14th century, has a south side featuring a late 14th-century window of two trefoiled lights with a hoodmould bearing head stops, a blocked single-light window, a 19th-century priest's doorway, a late 14th-century window of two trefoiled lights with a hoodmould and large head stops, ashlar coping, and a gable cross to the east. The east end has end buttresses and a mid-14th century three-light window with reticulated tracery and a hoodmould with head stops.

The vestry and heating chamber have a single-light east vestry window with a voussoired segmental arch, a 19th-century window and door in a quoined surround to the heating chamber, and a 19th-century chimney rising north of the chancel wall.

Inside, the 3-bay north arcade is likely from around 1200, featuring round pillars on bases, octagonal abaci, and triple-chamfered round arches. The chancel arch, dating to the mid-14th century, is of one order, slightly chamfered with a double-curved moulding on the north respond capital. A 13th-century octagonal font tapers into a circular base with roll moulding, and it is covered by a 17th-century wooden pyramidal cover with a finial. A 17th-century pulpit, 18th- and 19th-century dado panelling, and communion boards on the east wall of the north aisle are also present. Near the north end of the altar rail, a 14th-century grave cover displays a foliate cross with branches on the stem, along with a pair of sheep shears and a book. A stone with a circular panel containing a floriate cross-head is set into the west wall. Fragments of 9th-century sculpture, including portions of a cross-head and a crucifixion with expanded arms and knot-work, are found in and near the chancel’s south wall. Fragments of medieval stained glass remain in the south-east chancel window. A 17th-century altar table is positioned near the priest's door.