St Andrew's

The church grew outward over six centuries. In the early twelfth century it was a small aisleless nave and chancel, about fifteen feet by eleven. A south aisle was added late in that century, and early in the thirteenth a north aisle went up, the nave was lengthened eastward, and the old chancel was pulled down and replaced. Both aisles were widened and extended in the fifteenth century, and the roofs of that date survive, with cambered and moulded ties.

The north aisle has a fifteenth-century window of three lights at either end, with image niches of the same date carrying pinnacled side shafts and projecting crocketed canopies.

The west tower was built in 1704, and a tablet inside records the people who did it: the churchwardens William Cleverly and John Leach, and the mason Thomas Muspratt, dated 1703.

A worn brass slab in the north aisle commemorates Mary Gore, who died in 1437. At the east end of the same aisle is a fine brass casement showing a bishop or mitred abbot beneath a canopy, of the late fourteenth or early fifteenth century.

In the chancel floor is a slab to John Miller, 1647, and another to Esther Miller, who died in 1697 after a second marriage to Sir Henry Paulet, third son of the Marquess of Winchester. A slab to W. D. Clarke, described as late minister here, records his death in 1680 alongside his wife Susanna.

Five bells. The oldest, of 1585, was cast by John Wallis of Salisbury and reads Be meeke and loly to heare the word of God. Two more of 1642 read God be our guide and God is my hope. The fifth was cast by Clement Tozier in 1702.

For centuries this Hampshire parish answered to York. From the thirteenth century the Treasurer of York Cathedral, by arrangement with its dean and chapter, presented a rector here, who in turn presented a vicar. In 1291 the church was worth £66 13s. 4d. a year. Early in the fifteenth century the rectory was appropriated to the sub-chapter and vicars choral of York Cathedral, who have kept the advowson ever since.