Eastleach - St Andrew´s Church

Eastleach was created in 1935 when the separate parishes of Eastleach Turville and Eastleach Martin were combined as a civil parish. The two villages of the parish - Eastleach Turville and Eastleach Martin -are separated only by the narrow River Leach.


The Church of St Andrew at Eastleach (Turville) is neighbouring the St Michael and St Martin's Church on the other side of the River Leach. It was built in the 12th century.


The nave, north wall and arch of the chancel were built in the 12th century. In the 13th a north aisle and tower were added. Various restorations and revisions were carried out in the 17th to 19th centuries.

The building has stone slate roofs. It consists of a chancel, nave with north transept and a west tower.

The saddleback tower was added in the late 12th or early 13th century.

The Norman doorway, which dates from around 1130, has a carved tympanum with Christ in Majesty in the centre with angels on either side.