Historical

St. Andrew's Church is the fourth oldest church in Ontario. The original church, a log structure built in 1794, served not only as a church, but as a meeting place and a school. Before the construction of the log chuch, services were read by Andrew Pettit in his home. The log chuch was replaced by a frame church in 1800. By 1819 a sandstone chuch was completed on the outside, but the inside was not completed until 1824, and the bell was not hung until 1830 (additions continued to be made to the church all the way until 1971). The church was concecrated in 1828 and the Parish decided to name it St. Andrew's, not only for the saint, but also in memory of Andrew Pettit.  The Lych Gate, one of very few in Canada, was erected in 1916, in memory of Linus Woolverton. In England a Lych Gate is found at the enterance to the churchyard and is a place for a bier, carrying a corpse for a funeral procession, to rest to await the clergyman. At St. Andrews it is an enterance gate for people approaching from the street.

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