Parish Church of St Andrew is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 September 1951. A Medieval Church.
Parish Church of St Andrew
- WRENN ID
- north-railing-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 25 September 1951
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Parish Church of St Andrew features a 6 bay aisle-less nave and a chancel with a rectangular sanctuary, along with a vestry and additional pews from a parallel range that includes a medieval northern tower. The church is constructed from random coursed rubble with dressed quoins and has steep slate roofs with raking gable parapets supported by kneelers, topped with Celtic cross finials. The south wall of the nave, the west end, and the sanctuary are reinforced with stepped buttresses. The windows are decorated, with some featuring curvilinear tracery.
The west door is moulded and pointed, with a five-light window above it that has a returned hoodmould. The south nave bays contain two-light windows, and a cusped lancet window is adjacent to a polygonal turret that has a crocketed pinnacle to the east. The north nave wall is blind and may be of medieval origin. The chancel has corbelled eaves and cusped lancets, while the sanctuary sides feature two-light windows with cambered, intersecting tracery. A tall three-light window is located at the east end, with a hoodmould that returns to the buttresses.
The vestry on the east side has a two-light window and a pointed door, while the north side includes a lancet and a three-light flat-headed window, indicative of earlier masonry. The medieval "Pembrokeshire" tower has three stages and includes a slight vice projection with slits on the west side. It features an embattled parapet supported by corbels and stone voussoirs for the louvres in the bell stage, with additional slits on the second stage and a pointed doorway to the north.
Inside, there is a tripartite arch stone screen that cants back towards the chancel, supported by round piers with stopped hoodmoulds, and the rear arches are carried on corbels. Broad pointed arches lead to the vestry, organ chamber, and extra pews. The sanctuary includes cusped sedilia with marble colonettes and vine scroll spandrels, as well as a trefoil aumbry and a nookshaft at the east window. The church features a contemporary front and pulpit, a plain vault at the base of the tower with a spiral vice, and a nave wagon roof supported by crown posts and struts. There is a group of early 19th-century tablets on the north wall of the nave and some late stained glass.
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