Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is an Anglican parish church, largely dating from the 1861 rebuilding by C.E. Giles, with a 15th-century tower. The tower is constructed of local lias stone, while the remainder of the church is built of Cary stone, with dressings of Doulting stone. The roofs are slate-covered, with coped gables and clay sawtooth ridges. The church has a three-cell plan, encompassing a two-bay chancel, a three-bay nave and north aisle, a north-east vestry, a south-east organ chamber, a south porch and a west tower.

The chancel features a chamfered plinth and corner buttresses on the north and south sides, with a three-light east window displaying trefoil and quatrefoil tracery in a 13th-century style and a two-light south window in a plate tracery style, both with plain arched labels. The north-east vestry is a lean-to structure with a pair of lancet windows in the east wall and a flat-arched doorway in the north wall. The organ chamber is a gabled projection on the south side, complete with angled corner buttresses, a two-light plate tracery style window, and a quatrefoil gable vent. The north aisle presents as a lean-to addition with centre and end buttresses, and two pairs of lancet windows without labels in the north wall, with a single lancet at the west end.

The nave incorporates two-light, late 15th century, Muchelney style traceried windows, with cusped ogee lights, quatrefoils above, and flat arched labels with headstops, which may incorporate reused features from a prior church. A south porch is positioned between these windows, simple in design with a 13th-century style pointed arched opening featuring side shafts and floriated capitals, and a plain inner door.

The squat tower rises in three stages and has angled corner buttresses, a moulded plinth, string courses, a top course featuring gargoyles, and a battlemented parapet with corner pinnacles. A north-east square stair turret is present, two stages high, with a lean-to stone roof and small rectangular windows. The west doorway features a deeply moulded four-centre arch under a square label with hollowed spandrils; the doors, are relatively low and likely date to the 16th century. Above the doorway is a three-light 15th-century traceried window in a deep hollowed recess, with similar windows around the third stage, though these incorporate slightly later tracery and have wooden shutters.

The interior is largely from the 19th century, in a 13th-century style, with the exception of the tower space. The tower arch is tall and moulded in a 15th-century style. The church contains an early 17th-century timber octagonal pulpit with carved panels, set upon a 19th-century stone base, a plain tub font likely dating to the 13th century, and a 16th-century chest with linenfold panels. Memorials include several to the Woodforde family; Reverend James Woodforde, the 18th-century diarist, held the living and a memorial over the vestry door was erected by him to commemorate his parents. The first recorded rector was in 1328.