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St Andrew's Church

Mainly Norman, with traces of reused Roman brick, St Andrew?s has a pretty clapboard bell-turret and porch, and shares a churchyard with the later church of St Christopher. The chancel of St Andrew’s is 15th-century as are the belfry timbers, and there is a 14th-century octagonal font. Some interesting memorials include…

St Andrew's Church

This simple church, dating back to the 13th-century, sits prettily in a farmyard setting. It is a simple building with a Tudor brick porch and a bell-cote. Inside, there are beautiful brasses, showing men and women in Medieval…

St Andrew's Church

This isolated, homely church stands at the end of a long track on the site of a vanished village. The chancel, nave and square west tower date from the 14th-century but…

St Andrew's Church

St Andrew?s is an 18th-century church in the form of a Classical temple, tucked away in the landscaped parkland of Gunton Hall. The effect of suddenly coming upon a Palladian portico through the trees is dramatic. It was designed by the leading Scottish architect of the 18th century, Robert Adam, whose designs were influential across the world. It is Adam?s only complete church in England. The interior of this neo-Classical gem has a clean, calm simplicity, but with the richness of decorative moulding on the ceiling and elegant dark wood furnishings. Although the grounds of Gunton Hall are private,…

St Andrew's Church

Once a glorious Medieval church, St Andrew?s now lies in picturesque ruin by the sea, with only the lofty 14th century tower (preserved as a sea mark) and a curtain of original walling surviving. A smaller thatched-roof church, built in 1672 when the inhabitants were given permission to dismantle the older church and still in use, nestles inside the ruins. One hopes that the rapidly encroaching sea will…

St Andrew's Church

This worn but handsome marshland church has a lovely brick-and-stone tower and a lofty interior. The foot of the tower contains a curious cell or oratory. The church was built in the 15th-century on an older site where Roman as well as Medieval remains have been found. There is some glorious 20th-century stained glass in…

St Andrew's Church

This beautiful church sits in a tree-filled churchyard and has a calm and serene atmosphere. There is a 14th-century steeple and a wonderfully carved Norman…

St Andrew's Church

This handsome 14th-century church is lit with Victorian stained glass featuring scenes from the New Testament. Carved stone angels play instruments but mortals must content themselves with the beautifully decorated organ. Buckland is a tiny village on Ermine Street, where it crosses the chalk uplands between Buntingford and Royston: The church is at the highest point away from the road. The nave and chancel date from about 1348, where as the tower, south aisle, porch and south door from the 1400s. There is some Medieval stone carving in corbels flanking the windows, there’s also some Medieval glass,…

St Andrew's Church

Possibly of Saxon origin, and considered to be the oldest building in Brent, St Andrew’s Old Church nestles in a wooded grove to the south of its Victorian successor which dominates the skyline. St Andrew’s retains the feel of an old country parish church. Inside are fine brasses…

St Andrew's Church

Perched on Grey Mare Hill (293 metres high), St Andrew’s was built in 1769 on the site of a much older church. Inside, it is a simple and appealing cruciform church, with sturdy stone ribs over the crossing. As well as some fine 18th-century headstones in the churchyard, there is also the fantastic domed structure of the Hopper Mausoleum, erected in…