[1] The pioneer Channel swimmer, Captain Matthew Webb and his wife Madeleine Kate Chaddock were married at the church on 27 April 1880.

It includes a distinctive tower and spire at the west end, a nave with round thick-traceried windows in the low clerestory, lean-to aisles, north and south transepts, and separate, lower chancel, and a semicircular baptistery, added by Webb and Bell, with a conical roof and single foiled lights in flush stone surrounds.

[1] Inside the church, the rood screen beam was designed by Aston Webb and erected to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897.

The reredos is made of Caen stone accompanied by lapis lazuli mosaics, and depicts the risen Christ with the Archangels Michael and Gabriel.

[1][3] On 31 May 2001, the parishioners of St. Andrew's were shocked and saddened to hear that their vicar, the Reverend David Paget, had been stabbed to death in his own vicarage.

He had failed to turn up to a Eucharist that morning and the church's treasurer entered the vicarage to discover his dead body lying there.