Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a Grade I listed building that dates from the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries, with later additions. It is constructed from magnesian limestone and features a stone slate roof. The church includes a west tower, a nave with a north aisle and a south porch, and a chancel with a north chapel.

The two-stage tower has a plinth and a two-light, straight, trefoil-headed window. There is a band at the first floor level, a slit window on the south side, and trefoil-headed, two-light bell openings. The tower is adorned with a band featuring gargoyles and topped with battlements. The porch has a pointed chamfered arch that displays incised figures, including a cow, a boar's head, the arms of Talbois, and reliefs of The Virgin and Child and a St Andrew's cross. The south doorway is pointed and has a hood-mould with stops.

Inside the nave, the south side features an ogee-headed window above the porch, a two-light window with plate tracery, and an elliptical-arched window. The north aisle contains two- and three-light windows with Y-tracery. The chancel's south side has a buttress to the right, a trefoil-headed priest's doorway with remains of incised dials in the jambs, and a two-light, four-centred window under a hood-mould with recut mullions. Above the priest's doorway are round-headed windows, and there are two lancet windows. The north side of the chancel has a lancet window. The north chapel features two two-light windows with Y-tracery and a three-light window with geometrical tracery at the east end. The east window is also a three-light window with geometrical tracery.

The interior includes a double-chamfered, pointed-headed tower arch and a late 13th-century nave arcade with two pointed arches supported by an octagonal pier and a double-shafted west respond. There is a double-chamfered pointed chancel arch and a part-blocked doorway between the aisle and chapel. The chancel contains sedilia supported by a cylindrical shaft, a piscina, and a squint. A cylindrical font from the 12th century has a 19th-century cover and base. A sculpted head on a pedestal, inscribed 'JOHN / 1613 / FX', was brought from Pateley Bridge in 1939. There is a 17th-century armorial shield featuring Barwick impaling Strickland, a wall monument to Robert Fairfax who died in 1725, and a wooden memorial to Katherine Stapilton who died in 1695.