St Andrew

2 storey C16 south porch has pointed 4-centred granite arched doorway with ovolo moulding on inside and outside with cushion stops.

Rectangular niche above and on top of that is a 2-light Beerstone mullion window with cinquefoil heads and delicately carved foliage in spandrels.

2 early C19 memorials to French soldiers.

On the east wall of the tower inside the church is evidence of an earlier high-pitched roof signifying the presence of a smaller church onto which a new tower was added in 1418 according to the Register of Bishop Edmund Stafford, and which was then replaced by the present nave and aisles.

The original rood screen was removed in the restoration of 1856 - part going to St Andrew's Church, Whitchurch and part going to Powderham Castle.

The doorways to the original rood screen are still visible.

Just outside the chancel is a C15 granite octagonal font with moulded edges and base and the shaft and panels decorated with shall trefoil-headed niches.

St Andrew, the parish church, has an early C15 tower. www.visitmoretonhampstead.co.uk

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No stained glass earlier than the C19 survives.

In 1904 the gallery was removed from the west end of the nave and at this date also the C18 pulpit was replaced, the only remains of this is a wooden carved angel sounding a trumpet which was originally above the sounding board.

There is a good wall memorial above the south door to Francis Whiddon MA who died January 5th 1656 and "was 32 years minister of this parish".

The memorial itself is rectangular and inscribed on slate with a plasterwork surround decorated with shield and family coat of arms at top and bottom and with bunches of fruit and flowers around the edge.