The foundation stone of St Andrew's Church was laid on St Peter's Day, 29 June, 1864 and the completed church was consecrated the following Year by the Bishop of London on the Feast of St Philip and St James, 1 May 1865.
The church was built at the initiative of the Reverend Richard Croft, the Vicar of Hillingdon from 1856-1869, to provide a place of worship for the growing population in what was the western part of his parish, and he donated the font. The church was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott (architect of St Pancras Station, the Albert memorial, and the 1871 reordering of St Margaret's Uxbridge) and built by William Fassnidge at a cost of some 12000 pounds.
The total length of St Andrew's Church is 130 feet and the spire reaches 180 feet, from the top of which steeplejacks can see Windsor Castle. The finely carved pulpit was presented to the church by William Fassnidge, and the screen behind the nave altar was erected in his memory by his son in 1927.
The stained glass windows were added gradually. The organ was first built by Thomas Eliot in 1809 for Christ Church, Blackfriars and transferred to St Andrew's in 1865. It was enlarged, rebuilt and moved to the west end in 1968. The belfry houses 8 bells, cast between 1865 and 1867, and rung regularly. The clock was presented to the church in 1887 to mark Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee.
The spire was struck by lightning in 1955, the year incense was introduced into worship at St Andrew's !
Since 1869, St Andrew's has had a school associated with it, and the present school and church hall complex attached to the church were built in 1912 and 1974 to replace the original buildings demolished to make room for the new road outside. In 1988 St Andrew's joined together with St Margaret's Church in the town centre where the NAVE programme takes place, to form the Parish of Uxbridge, served by a team ministry.
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