Architectural Features
MATERIALS: Ashlar with tooled C19 masonry to the chancel, tile roofs, except for copper roof of south aisle.
EXTERIOR: The broad 2-stage early C13 tower has moulded strings, massive clasping buttresses and internal south-west turret.
The tall buttressed porch has re-used C13 trefoil-headed entrance, and nave doorway with nook shafts.
The chancel arch is also C13, on clustered shafts.
The floor is laid with coloured tiles and raised wood floors below the benches, and the sanctuary has encaustic tiles.
PRINCIPAL FIXTURES: The C19 font has a round bowl with a foliage frieze around the rim, said to be based on the original font.
The polygonal wooden pulpit is on a stone base and has carved angels in each facet.
Several windows have stained glass, including the fine Nativity east window by Gibbs (c1870s), north and south chancel windows by William Wailes, and the Plant family memorial window by Clayton & Bell.
HISTORY: The west tower is early C13 and the arcades and chancel arch only slightly later.
Chancel arcades appear to date from the erection of aisles in 1825, although it has been argued that the piers are C13 but altered in the C19.
The original nave north aisle was taken down in 1685, but the arcade was preserved.
Incorporated Church Building Society Archives Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, 304-5 REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: St Andrew's Church, Weston, is designated Grade II* for the following principal reasons: * For the quality and extent of its C13 fabric, including tower, chancel arch and nave arcades * The C13 tower is exceptional for its scale and decoration * For the quality of the C19 restorations by Scott and Butterfield, two of the most respected Gothic-Revival church architects