Parish Church of St Andrew, Great Yeldham (EHER 9968)

Parish church, mainly 14th and 15th century. Walls of flint rubble with limestone dressings, except the south gable of the porch, which is of red brick. The lower stages of the west tower are of flint and brick rubble with limestone dressings, the top stage of red brick in English bond. Roofs of west tower and north aisle of lead, others of handmade red clay tiles. Chancel, nave and north aisle about 1350, south tower about 1400 later converted to south porch, south chapel and west tower late 15th century, upper room and brick gable over South porch added in early 16th century, south vestry, organ-chamber and general restoration 19th century.

Monument description derived from merging EHER 9968 and 28334. Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import: St Andrew's Church (NAT). <1> Parish Church of St Andrew. Parish church, mainly 14th and 15th century, and general restoration in the 19th century. RCHM 1. Grade I. <2> Parish Church of St Andrew stands at the north end of the village. The walls are of flint rubble with stone dressings, except the south gable of the porch, which is of red brick, and the west tower, which is partly of brick; the roofs of the north aisle and the tower are covered with lead, the other roofs are tiled. The chancel was rebuilt about 1350, and the north aisle was added to the earlier nave of about 1400, and the ground stage forms the present south porch. The south chapel was built late in the 15th century. If the south tower was ever completed, the upper part was destroyed before the end of the 15th century, when the west tower was added. Early in the 16th century a brick gable and an upper room were added to the remains of the south tower or south porch. The church was restored in the 19th century, when the south vestry and organ-chamber were added. The plan is of particular interest as it shows the positions of the 14th century and the 15th century towers. <3> May 1994. Watching brief. Replacement of rotten timber floor in chapel. Boards had been laid on stub walls of red brick (19th century). No finds or features seen apart from the stub walls. <4> 2013. Watching brief. A burial of uncertain date in the church and human bone fragments of uncertain date and peg-tile fragments of post-medieval date were recovered during the excavation for a drain. <5> See also: <6> - <10>