Church of St Nicholas

The Church of St Nicholas is a church built between 1873 and 1874 by T.D. Barry & Sons, with an addition to the west end completed in 1894 by W.D. Caröe. It is constructed from thin yellow sandstone rubble with freestone dressings, featuring slate roofs and a copper-clad fleche. The architectural style is Decorated.

The church has a plan that includes a six-bay nave and a two-bay apsidal chancel, designed as a single vessel with a fleche at the junction. There are north and south aisles with gabled porches, and an apsidal west chapel.

On the exterior, the nave features six circular clerestory windows with varying tracery. The west gable contains two tall, narrow, two-centred arched three-light windows adorned with elaborate Decorated tracery, along with a rose window above. The chapel beneath these windows has a three-sided west end with a cusped window on each side, a steeply-pitched roof topped with an apex cross, and square bays at each angle with segmental-pointed windows and hipped roofs. The chancel showcases tall traceried two-centred arched windows with gables above, and an elegant fleche with crockets and a finial.

Inside, the church features six bay arcades supported by cylindrical polished granite columns with crocket caps and two-centred arches that are both moulded and chamfered. There are clustered wall-shafts on foliated corbels, each different, and moulded two-centred arches leading to a wooden wagon roof. The chancel arch is formed by slender clustered wall-shafts rising to a traceried wooden arch. The chancel includes two bay arcades leading to the north organ house and south chapel, along with a very elaborate carved wooden triptych reredos. The west end of the nave has an intricate triple arcade leading to the Chapel of St Barnabas, and the north aisle features stained glass by Kempe.