St Andrew's Church, East Heslerton

St Andrew's Church, East Heslerton
St Andrew's Church, East Heslerton, from the northeast
St Andrew's Church, East Heslerton Location in North Yorkshire
Coordinates: 54°10′38″N 0°34′57″W / 54.1773°N 0.5826°W / 54.1773; -0.5826
OS grid reference	SE 926,766
Location	East Heslerton, North Yorkshire
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	Churches Conservation Trust
History
Founder(s)	Sir Tatton Sykes
Dedication	Saint Andrew
Architecture
Functional status	Redundant
Heritage designation	Grade I
Designated	10 October 1966
Architect(s)	G. E. Street
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic Revival
Completed	1877
Specifications
Spire height	105 feet (32 m)
Materials	Sandstone ashlar, red tile roof

St Andrew's Church is a redundant Anglican church at the south end of the village of East Heslerton, North Yorkshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

The present church is the third to be constructed on the site. It was built in 1877 by Sir Tatton Sykes of Sledmere House, and designed by the architect G. E. Street. It has not been changed since, and is "notable for being a complete survival of a Street design, without alteration and with fittings intact". The church was vested in the Trust on 8 October 2002.

St Andrew's is constructed in sandstone ashlar. The spire is roofed in stone slates, and the rest of the church in red tiles. Its plan consists of a five-bay nave with a porch, a south baptistry projecting at the western end, a chancel at a higher level with a vestry to its north, and a north tower. The porch is open, forming a narthex, and is supported on grey stone columns with foliated capitals. The tower is in two stages with angle buttresses and has a stair turret on its northwest. The lower stage is square with a west door and three stepped lancet windows on the north side. The upper stage is octagonal and contains four louvred lancet bell openings, between which are statues under trefoil-headed canopies. The statues are representations of Saint Ambrose, Saint Augustine, Saint Gregory, and Saint Jerome, the four Latin Fathers, by James Redfern. They were originally intended for the north porch of Bristol Cathedral but the dean said they were papist and they were rescued by Street. The spire is also octagonal, and contains lucarnes and quatrefoil windows in roundels, with a wrought iron cross on its summit. It is 105 feet (32 m) high. The chancel has an apse and contains lancet windows; it also has a wrought iron cross on the summit of its roof. The vestry has an east window of five stepped lancets.