Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a Grade II* listed building located in Minehead, constructed between 1877 and 1880 by the architect George Edmund Street. It is built from red sandstone with freestone dressings and features a concrete tile roof. The church has an aisled plan that includes a chancel, a north porch, and a vestry, all designed in a Free Gothic Revival style.

On the exterior, the church has diagonal offset buttresses at the corners of the nave. The east gable end showcases a 5-light window with reticulated tracery. On the north side, there is a 2-light window to the left of a three-storey projecting gabled vestry, which has a stack to the left and a bellcote featuring two trefoil-headed openings. Above the north aisle, there are three Decorated-style 2-light windows with small clerestory lancet windows above them. A projecting gabled porch on the right has a pointed arch with a finial over planked doors that have decorative strap hinges. The west end features a rose window at the apex, flanked by two tall 2-light Decorated-style windows and a central buttress, with a similar design on the south aisle.

Inside, the three-bay nave is supported by octagonal piers without capitals, with the arches dying into them. The intrados of the arches is smooth, while the back and front are corbelled out. The nave has a hammer-beam roof, the chancel features curved braces, and the aisles have exposed rafters. The floor is adorned with polychromatic tiles, particularly elaborate in the chancel. The east window, dedicated to Henry Luttrell and created by Kempe in 1889, features medieval-style stained glass.

Notable fittings include a wrought-iron and brass lectern in Art Nouveau style, dated 1903, a communion rail with fine wrought-iron supports, a Gothic stone pulpit and font, and original pine pews with shaped ends. The church was built and endowed by Charlotte Ann, the wife of Rev. A.H. Fownes Luttrell, who served as vicar from 1832 to 1899; the east window serves as a memorial to him. Although a tower was planned for the south-west (ritual east) end, it was never constructed.