Church Of St Nicholas

The Church of St Nicholas is a church dating from around 1500, built on foundations predating 1086. The aisle walls were rebuilt in 1790 and again during a restoration between 1904 and 1908 by Temple Moore. North extensions were added in 1889. The building is constructed from dressed sandstone, with slate roofs laid in diminishing courses. It is largely Perpendicular in style internally. The church comprises a west tower, an aisled nave, a chancel, an organ chamber, and a vestry. The embattled tower has three stages, with a west door and window containing glass designed by A. Fitzgerald Watt in 1908, all set under a single giant arch. There are six bays in the nave and three in the chancel, with a 1904-8 roof and an east window featuring glass by James Powell of White Friars. An earlier east window with medieval glass has been reset in the south aisle’s west wall. Polychrome medieval tiles are laid in the floor of the dais, alongside a sculpted table tomb from the early 16th century, originally belonging to the de Brus Family and located in St. Mary’s Priory. A monument to Thomas Spencer, sculpted by Gul. Tyler around 1759, depicts a putto standing by an urn in front of an obelisk. The church also contains medieval glass and the remains of earlier architectural features.