Tichborne - Church of St Andrew

Tichborne The Church of St Andrew has an 11th-century Saxo-Norman chancel that combines characteristically Saxon double-splayed windows with Norman flat buttresses and is Grade I listed. The nave and two-bay arcades are Early English Gothic The north aisle is now railed off to form the Tichborne Chapel, with monuments to members of the manorial family. It is rare in being dedicated as a Roman Catholic chapel within a pre-Reformation Anglican Parish Church. The west tower was added in 1703 and is built of blue and red brick. It has a ring of six bells cast between 1737 and 1887 In the Tichborne Chapel there is a splendid alabaster effigy of Sir Benjamin Tichborne of 1621, who lies with his wife while his children kneel below. Grade I listed building