St Andrew

C12 nave and chancel, with projecting porch from nave south wall.

Cold Aston church is dedicated to St Andrew and dates from the 12th century. The church is Grade I listed; see: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1089877?section=official-list-entry

© Philip Halling

Blocked small round-headed C12 window with single stone lintel in nave north wall.

Blocked C12 door with semi-circular tympanum with plain central field and decorated but eroded margin with billet decoration at bottom and zig-zag decoration around upper arc.

C20 plank door within C12 surround with jamb shafts and sculptured volute capitals within porch.

String with eroded gargoyles below parapet.

Double plank doors on west within 'Tudor'-arched part hollow- moulded, part flat-chamfered surround with carved spandrels and stopped hood.

Rebuilt gabled porch on south side of nave with 'Tudor'-arched entrance.

West wall of south porch contains fragments of reused sculptured stonework including part of C14 piscina, part of a series of trefoil-headed openings, fragment of possible cross shaft decorated with intertwined serpent motif, part of flat-chamfered band with repeated trefoil/heart-shaped decoration.

Carved C12 voussoir with cable moulding over porch entrance within porch.

Tierceron vault to tower with central bell opening and angel corbels.

Plain coloured tiles forming geometric patterns to nave and chancel floor.

Lower half of C12 north door blocked, the upper part now forming image niche.

Remains of an elaborate C14 stone reredos in east wall of chancel which formerly comprised 3 tall niches of which 2 remain above a moulded brattished string terminating in stops in the form of a king's and queen's head.

C19 octagonal stone font adjacent to south door.

A 19th century font in St Andrew's church, Cold Aston.

© Philip Halling

C19 wooden pews and pulpit.

SP1219 : St Andrew, Cold Aston: shadows on the pulpit

© Basher Eyre

Monuments

small limestone monument on west wall of nave right of tower arch to Samual Elyott, died 1667, and Elizabeth his wife, died 1666.

Large limestone and marble Baroque monument, by Reeve, on nave north wall to Giles Carter, died 1664.

C19 stained glass in chancel, geometric stained glass in west window and two windows in nave wall.