[1] The Church of St Andrew has Saxon origins with some parts dating from the 12th and 13th centuries, from which the door and a window remain.
[2] Restoration work has been undertaken several times since, the most major of which was in 1861–62 by John Norton, which included the addition of a vestry.
[1] Inside the church most fittings are from the 19th century, but the timber pulpit survives from 1610 and it has two fonts one tulip shaped and the other octagonal.
[1] The font is a simple limestone bowl, less than a metre tall, which is thought to be Saxon in origin, one of only three in England and was possibly the one used for the baptism of Guthrum after his defeat by King Alfred The Great after the Battle of Ethandun in 878.
[6][7] A copy of the font was made by a stonemason in Corvallis, Oregon, in the 1880s, to memorialise the son of the rector of Aller, Rev.