Church Of Saint Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a church dating from the 12th and 13th centuries, with a 15th-century tower and restoration work carried out by C Hodgson Fowler in 1884-5, and a south porch added around 1920. It is constructed of dressed sandstone and Hildenley limestone, with a Westmorland slate roof over the nave and a blue Welsh slate roof over the chancel.

The church comprises a three-stage, embattled tower on a chamfered plinth with buttresses, a four-bay nave and north aisle, a gabled south porch, a chancel with a north chapel now used as a vestry. The tower west face features a trefoil-headed window with panel tracery, while the north and south faces have single lights. Two-light bell openings with panel tracery, partly obscured by clock faces, are topped by pointed hood-moulds. A recessed needle spire rises from the tower.

The south porch has a chamfered doorway beneath a 13th-century pointed hood-mould with head stops. The nave windows were rebuilt in the 19th century. The north side retains two original 2-light, trefoil-headed windows in chamfered square-headed surrounds. The chancel has a pointed priest's door with hood-mould, and 2- and 3-light, trefoil-headed windows in chamfered square-headed surrounds. A dwarf buttress supports a wall tablet commemorating Matthew Pape (died 1788). A three-light east window features cinquefoil heads, panel tracery and a hood-mould with head and foliate stops. The north side has a 2-light window to the former chapel beneath a pointed hood-mould with dogtooth moulding.

Inside, the 12th-century responds meet the 15th-century chancel arch, which has imposts with carved fleurons and cable moulding. The former north chapel contains 12th-century semicircular responds with scalloped capitals and a 15th-century pointed, double-chamfered arch. The c1200 arcade consists of double-chamfered round arches on cylindrical piers with finely moulded capitals, some with head stops. One capital has stiff leaf carving while another retains an earlier plain impost, chamfered on the lower edge. The 15th-century tower arch is pointed and double-chamfered. Substantial remains of a 13th-century wall painting depicting the church's foundation and the institution of its first priest, Robert de Okham, around 1250, are visible on the north side of the eastern respond to the arcade. Traces of colour survive beneath the chapel window, where the piscina is located. A 13th-century octagonal font with blind arcading is also present.