St. Andrew's church is set back down a narrow lane in what must have been the original settlement, accentuating its height.
This was a Norman building of which perhaps the lower part of the tower survives, but there were busy building campaigns over the following centuries.The nave was referred to as 'new' in bequests of both 1389 and 1469, and what we see today appears mostly of the later date, entirely Perpendicular in style. The building of the tower can be dated by a series of bequests over the 15th Century On all four sides there is the high ghost of a pointed arch picked out in what appears to be brick.It is possible that in its Norman incarnation this was a central tower with transepts. There is no south aisle, and from this side the tall church appears austere, rising relentlessly against the tower. There is a blocked entrance beneath the tower which looks as if it might have been a processional way. The north side is ameliorated by an aisle and clerestory and a curiously disproportionate porch, long and low.
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