Architectural Features
Early Tudor red brick 2-storied porch with a moulded depressed arch and diagonal buttresses.
The north and south doorways are both Norman: plain on the north, and on the south with one order of shafts, cushion capitals, moulded abaci, enriched zig-zag ornament round the arch, and an old studded door.
Interior with a pointed early C14 tower arch and no chancel arch.
2 shallow niches in the south wall of the nave and another below the Norman slit window in the north wall.
The arms of Charles II carved in wood above the tower arch.
C15 octagonal font: each face of the bowl has a shield surrounded by a cusped circle, and the 2-tier base has small clustered pilasters.
TM3787 : St Andrew, Ilketshall St Andrew - Font
Hexagonal pulpit of circa 1700 with a shaped base and panels with very late Jacobean-style decoration.
C15 nave roof in 9 bays, with the common rafters replaced in 7 of them: arched brace form, the solid collars immediately below the apex with a hanging central boss and braces to the ridge-piece.
Braces, collars, purlins and wall-posts are all moulded, and along the wall between the trusses are solid arched braces with carving in the spandrels.
The front 4 pairs of benches in the nave have panelled backs: one is dated 1617 with initials S.A.
3 early C16 benches in the chancel have fine poppyheads, with signs of Renaissance influence.