Church of St Andrew

Medieval Parish Church. Large unbuttressed W tower, nave, S porch, chancel, separately roofed N aisle with NE chapel. Built of rubble with ashlar dressings including deep copings. kneelers with St Andrew's cross, Welsh slate roof with corbel table and cruciform finials. W tower is 4-storeyed and attached to W nave but not N aisle, heavily battered at W below a string course; embattled parapet on corbel table; small chamfered rectangular lights to tower chambers; ground floor has to N a square-headed 3-light window with mullions and diamond quarries under a relieving arch; at S is a 4-centred arched doorway. Deep S porch has plain pointed-arched doorway with voussoirs; inside are stone seats, unplastered wall with plaques, 2 arch-braced trusses, boarded ceiling; main S doorway has broadly chamfered pointed arch under a relieving arch. S nave has a 2-light window under square hoodmould. blocked light to former rood-screen. S chancel has 2 windows under square hoodmoulds, one single one double-light with cusped heads; chamfered pointed arched narrow priests' doorway; E window of 2 cusped lights with quatrefoil tracery. NE chapel set back and of different masonry has similar E window. N aisle is slightly battered and has two windows of 3 chamfered lights under a shallow square hoodmould; one straight joint in the fabric to W and blocked square-headed opening to E probably to light former roodscreen and staircase. Similar W window to N aisle and chimney at junction of aisle and nave at W.

Interior is rendered with exposed dressings. 4-bay N aisle arcade with plain wide-chamfered pointed arches, no capitals; octagonal piers on octagonal plinths on square bases; NE pier pierces the chancel wall; adjacent squint between N aisle and chancel. Rood screen opening to NE at upper level, plain pointed arch to NE chapel; rood extended across both units. 4-bay arched-braced nave and aisle roofs. Main side windows have very wide splays. Vestry at W, monuments of local alabaster. Pointed moulded chancel arch runs out into wall (C19). Chancel has ceiling of decorative painted panels in red and white, predominantly red over sanctuary; also painted panels flanking a reredos on E wall which has raised emblems of the Passion; encaustic tile floor. At NE is organ chamber and the Lee chapel, the floor inlaid 1877 but arch from N aisle is medieval. Bells of 1747 cast by William Evans. Norman bowl font on a stem on later plinth. Sculptural First World War memorial.