Standing above the village street, St Andrew's in Beelsby was built by Reggie Hodgson Fowler in 1889-90.

Mark Acton, August 2014

The tiny spirelet on the bellcote is Hodgson Fowler's "bit of fun", in Pevsner's view.

This was part of the extensive work done by Fowler in 1889-90.

August 2014

The lower courses of the nave walls of St Andrew's are medieval and there are other small areas of Decorated tracery.

The churchyard has been cleared of its gravestones.

Locked with no obvious means of entry, there is an air of redundancy about the place.

August 2014

View of the church from the south-east.

Peter Kirk Collection, 1997

View from the west.

"Blocked pointed chamfered former tower arch to west wall. Stepped bellcote has pointed arch with pinnacled ogee hood flanked by pinnacled buttress-shafts, coped top with short octagonal ashlar spire surmounted by weathercock"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1103488?section=official-list-entry 

DB 16 November 2024

The stepped bellcote has a pointed arch with pinnacled ogee hood flanked by pinnacled buttress-shafts.

The coped top supports a short octagonal ashlar spire which is surmounted by a weathercock. (Pevsner describes this as Hodgson Fowler's 'bit if fun'.

Bryan Kitson, 1993

The chancel is unexceptional in design and decoration.

The three-light east window has reticulated tracery of early fourteenth-century style.

Bryan Kitson, 1993

This is one of the two fourteenth-century carved stone coffins which have been re-set in the east and west vestry walls.

Bryan Kitson, 1993

This date stone - 1890 - related to the restoration of R H Fowler.

August 2014

The font has a plain medieval octagonal bowl set on a nineteenth-century base.

Bryan Kitson, 1993

View looking west towards the (blocked) tower arch of the earlier medieval building. 

The north and south arcades have also been retained from the earlier church.

Bryan Kitson, 1993

This label stop in at the doorway into the south porch at St Andrew's. It dates from the restoration of R H Fowler in 1889-1990.

August 2014