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St Andrew

Architectural Features

enlarged C13, C15

altered C16

repaired C17.

West tower: C15, restored 1928

carved gargoyles empty into downpipes with hoppers dated "EIIR/1953".

South porch: circa 1300 with embattled parapet and diagonal buttresses

priest's door in heavy roll moulded surround, hoodmould with carved head stops

plank and cross battened south door of late C15.

C15 tower arch of 2 wave mouldings.

carved heads on piers and square squints through piers.

Restored Perpendicular style roofs, those of the arcades rest on carved corbel heads

Single bay chancel: triple sedilia with colonnettes and pointed arches under a linked hoodmould on carved stops, piscina of similar details but with an outer roll moulding which has a fillet

Rodney Chapel: inscribed and dated 1536, resto red 1933

2-light trefoil headed squint to right with fragment of C11 carving

Pulpit is late C19.

C12, restored 1907, circular bowl with cable moulding, circular stem with foliate moulding on base.

The rood screen is early C16: blank arcaded base with cusped tracery and quatrefoils in circles

Brass chandelier, dated 1786.

Monuments.

Rodney tomb: the effigy is that of Sir Walter Rodney, died 1466 but the tomb chest is mid-C14

5-bay blank arcade of cusped, ogee headed niches, angels bear arms, band of fleurons above.

Rodney Chapel: Elizabeth Harvey, early C17, aedicular with a small obelisk finial

Rice Davis, died 1638, brass and marble plaques, flanked by ashlar terms, moulded frieze and cornice with arms above.