St Andrew

Tall 3 stage C14 tower with moulded plinth, chamfered string courses and stepped gabled setback buttresses.

Carved and hollow moulded eaves course to broach spire which has 3 tiers of lucarnes in alternating directions, the lowest tier with paired shafted openings, all gabled.

The gabled south porch has an elaborately cusped and decorated outer arch with some seaweed carving and naturalistic leaves.

Fittings: elaborate C19 reredos to altar with limewood figures of The Sower and The Good Shepherd set in gilded niches.

A memorable rood screen, early C14, with wider central opening under a 4 centred arch and 3 flanking panels to either side, each with cusped ogee heads, crockets, trefoiled panels and pointed heads.

Contemporary oak pulpit reuses an early C18 cornice.

In the south aisle a handsome C16 chest with cambered lid, iron bands, lavish paterae and arcaded chip carving.

C14 octagonal tub font, to the sides are blind panels of reticulated tracery and fleurons.

The whole stands on a base formed from a massive section of early C12 shaft, perhaps the base of an earlier font, which is enriched with pelleted intersecting arcades.

Monuments

in the north chapel a C14 tomb niche with elaborately moulded head and gablet containing a jousting helm and blank shield.

In the recess an elevated carving of a recumbent knight in plate armour with surcoat, feet resting on a lion, pot helmet, hands and sword missing, though the sword belt bears a lion buckle.

Also in the north aisle a limestone wall monument to Henry Pell, d. 1667, a square tablet with advanced Composite columns supporting an entablature bearing a pair of obelisks, the whole resting on scrolled console brackets.

In the chancel the early C14 founder's tomb recess has a continuously moulded arched head, pinnacles and gablet.

Also in the chancel are various rectangular brass panels with raised letter inscriptions to members of the Finch Hatton family, Earls of Winchelsea and Nottingham, and a white marble wall tablet to George William, l0th Earl, d. 1858.