St Andrew

in the C13 Y-tracery in the north chapel.

Much of the internal appearance dates from C15 when the roofs of the nave and aisles and the clerestorey were built.

The church has a particularly fine clerestorey and roofs of 1495 and is noteworthy for its monuments and brasses to the Bernard and Peyton families.

The embattled nave has a C15 clerestory with, on each side, five windows of three cinquefoil lights with vertical tracery in four-centred head.

The south aisle, south porch and south chapel are all of 1331, on a continuous splayed sill.

The inner archway to the south doorway is two-centred and has the hollow and roll mouldings of the C14.

The door, however, is early C18 with raised and fielded panelling and original brass- work.

INTERIOR: North and south arcades of 1331 and of clunch.

The clerestorey and roof were constructed in 1495 for Crystofer Peyton, as was the embattled cornice with mask and foliate bosses and the blind tracery which fills the spandrels of the arches.

The tie beams, which are cambered and moulded and have a winged demi-angel, are supported on wall posts which are braced to the ties forming a four- centred arch.

The intermediate bays have angels with emblems of the Passion and at the soffits smaller angels with shields.

The north and south aisles and the north and south transepts all have roofs of c.1500.

The south wall of the chancel has a piscina of C14 with trefoil cusping to the head, and a sedilia restored in C19.

The font is C13 and of clunch.

Octagonal, with each side, the soffit and stem carved.

Fine C16 lectern, found in fen in C19, of brass in form of eagle with outstretched wings as book rest, on a sphere with lions sejant at base.

C15 desk in chancel with sloping bookrest, and poppy head finials to ends.

Stalls in original site in chancel, with misericords representing church and state.

Some C15 pew ends in north aisle.

The communion rail with its jewelled work finials and balusters is a fine example of early C17 work.

Monuments.

North transept: Barbara Themilthorpe, 1619, clunch painted, Corinthian columns with entablature framing figure of child.

Roger Peachey, late C17, black marble in white stone frame.

The church contains a number of fine monuments and brasses to members of the Bernard and Peyton families, including a C15 Easter Sepulchre.

C14 wall tombs in the north

south chapels, early C15 chest tomb in the south chapel

early C17 canopied tombs also in the south chapel.