Hasketon is towards the SE of the county, just west of the A12 at
Woodbridge; the landscape here is the typical arable farmland of the East
Anglian plain. The village is on rising ground on the N side of the valley of a
stream; one of a network that drains into the Deben estuary at Martlesham
Creek, S of Woodbridge. The church stands in the centre of the village, S of
the village green.
St Andrew's has a round W tower, a wide nave with a S porch and a chancel with a N
vestry. The tower may be 11thc. in its lower part.
This is of flint, 11.6 m (38 ft) high with walls 1.5 m (5 ft) thick, and
has13thc. lancets to the N, S and W. The upper storey is octagonal and was
addedc.1300, to judge from the bell-openings. It is of flint with
ashlar quoins and the top has been rebuilt in red
brick. It brings the tower up to a total height of 18.3 m (60 ft). The tower
arch is tall and pointed, perhaps contemporary with the upper stage of the
tower. The fabric of the nave also indicates an 11thc. date. It is of flint
with suggestions of a herringbone pattern in parts of
the S wall and layering in the N. There is an early blocked window of just
three stones in the S wall. A plain lancet in the N wall dates from the 13thc.,
and there is a late-14thc. window with mouchettes at the E end of the S wall.
The other N window and that at the W end of the S wall are 15thc; while the
flowing central S window is a 19thc. invention. An 1843 view by Henry Davy
shows a Y-tracery window in this position. The two N doorways date from the
14thc; the S is under a flint and ashlar porch rebuilt
in 1868. The chancel arch dates from the 14thc., and
the flint chancel, lower and narrower than the nave but
still broad and spacious, dates from the 13thc. (on N window). One S window is
original: a tall, two-light 15thc opening that also appears on Davy's 1843
drawing. The other is a replacement, with reticulated tracery where Davy shows
Y-tracery. The geometric E window is of 1865, replacing the Y-tracery window
shown in Davy's 1843 etching, and the flint N vestry
was also built in that year. The main 19thc. restoration was carried out by W.
Mann in the 1860s and included work on the nave (1863) and the chancel (1865). The nave was reseated in 1866 and the
porch was rebuilt in 1868. The only Romanesque
sculptures here are the remains of a pillar piscina
under the W
tower.