St Andrew's Church

St Andrew's Church is a 19th-century building constructed in 1881 by architect J H Spencer, with a significant extension added in 1893 by Edmund Buckle. The church is built of Westleigh stone with tile roofs (including some modern concrete tiles), and the spire is roofed in slate.

The building is aligned east-west and comprises a nave with north and south aisles, together with a south tower topped by a splay-footed spire. The main entrance is located in a single-storey narthex extension at the west end, accessed through timber doors set in a moulded stone surround with cornice and blocking course above, surmounted by a stone cross.

The south aisle features five bays, each with large six-light windows with paired sexfoil openings above, continuous hoodmould and stringcourse, and walls of snecked rubbled stone with ashlar blocking course. A gabled projection contains a two-light pointed window and a further door. Beyond this, the Lady Chapel is two storeys high with buttresses, featuring two windows and a door at ground floor level and two windows to the chapel above with Geometric style tracery.

The western elevation shows the single-storey narthex with square-headed mullioned windows. Above this, the main church elevation features large three-light windows with Reticulated style tracery in the gables of the nave and south aisle (that of the nave having a sexfoil opening above). The north aisle has three-light windows along its elevation, with clerestory windows lighting the nave above.

The eastern elevation displays a large gable to the chancel with a five-light traceried east window and a smaller four-light window to the Lady Chapel. A continuous stringcourse and hoodmould steps up to the east window. Between these windows is a mullion and transom window lighting a staircase, with a further two-light window to the north and a row of square-headed windows at lower level.

Internally, the church is entered from the narthex through doors into the nave, which contains pews with plain ends throughout. The nave is divided from the aisles by arcades of pointed arches on brick piers with polychrome decoration. A tall king-post roof with thick chamfered timbers and stencilled decoration to the boarding between rafters covers the nave. A large chancel arch features an oak screen erected in 1919 as a First World War memorial, inscribed with names of the parish fallen. The chancel contains carved choir stalls and an organ of 1883.

The south wall of the chancel has three cusped windows in pointed arch surrounds with Byzantinesque capitals carved with deeply carved biblical scenes, and gates below providing access to a stair. The east window, with similar capitals, contains stained glass by Lavers and Westlake illustrating the 'Te Deum'. The walls are timber-panelled, with an aumbry and piscina in the south wall, both with uncarved hoods above.

The north aisle has a lean-to timber roof with rows of pews, a stair to the lower level, and a vestry at its eastern end. At the western end is the 'Railway Window' of 2002 by Clare Maryan Green, commemorating the role of the railway in the parish's development.

The original south aisle is enclosed by the later extension, separated from it by a further arcade of pointed arches with circular stone piers. A carved alabaster font stands at the western end of the original south aisle. The south aisle extension, featuring polychrome brickwork matching the original building, has a tall timber roof. At its western end is the original east window with stained glass by Hardman from 1881. Towards the west is a carved timber lectern and a font of 1912 by Bridgeman and Son of Lichfield.

At the eastern end of the south aisle extension, a pointed arch with diaper pattern brickwork above gives access to the side entrance doors and the original external wall of the tower. The Lady Chapel beyond is enclosed by a carved timber screen, itself enclosed by a modern glazed screen, and contains a carved timber reredos and a small aumbry.

The lower level consists of a wide corridor with timber cupboards and a shallow barrel-vaulted ceiling, incorporating a parish office with separate external access.