Church Of St Nicholas

The Church of St Nicholas, built between 1848 and 1849 with a steeple added in 1884, is located in Ribby with Wrea. It is constructed of sandstone rubble and features a blue slate roof. The church is designed in the Early English style and consists of a nave and chancel, along with a three-stage tower that has a broach spire attached to the south side.

The nave has four bays and is adorned with plate-tracery windows that contain two cusped lights with alternating quatrefoils and trefoils in the heads. The west gable features a larger window set in a moulded arch with shafts, along with a small wheel window above it. The tower, which is attached to the second bay, includes a porch doorway with three orders of moulding and a hoodmould, as well as string courses and a gableted niche that houses a statue. The tower also has louvred three-light belfry windows and a broach spire with transomed two-light lucarnes on the cardinal sides. A polygonal stair turret rises from the eaves of the nave at the northwest corner.

The chancel consists of two short bays and features two-light traceried windows with foliated-stop hoodmoulds, along with a tall traceried east window of three lights that has a cinquefoil and trefoils in the head. Inside, the church has an arch-braced kingpost roof and a carved and painted reredos.