Church Of St Nicholas

The Church of St Nicholas is a church built between 1848 and 1849 by architects Sharpe and Paley, with a tower added in 1897. It features rubble walling with ashlar dressings and a slate roof. The church has a five-bay nave with aisles beneath a lean-to roof, a west tower, and a chancel that includes a south organ loft. The aisles are adorned with a cornice featuring beasts and a parapet, and they contain three-light windows with Geometrical tracery. The gabled south porch has a pointed entrance of one order. The clerestory is fitted with spherical triangle windows. The tower is supported by diagonal buttresses and has a west window with three lights and a transom, along with two-light louvred bell openings, an embattled parapet, and a low stair turret. The three-bay chancel includes gabled setback buttresses, a foliated cornice, and a parapet. There is a small north vestry, two windows of two lights on the north and south sides, and a three-light east window. The organ loft features a gable and a two-light window above a buttress, with an east window in the angle that has two lights under a half relieving arch.

Inside, the church has a high narrow nave supported by arcades on round piers, and a collar-truss roof on wall shafts resting on angel corbels. The chancel arch is set on corbelled wall shafts with foliated corbels and capitals. An octagonal font with clustered shafts is present, and the pulpit is corbelled from the wall with a pointed entrance and a canted stair turret in the north aisle. The chancel has an arch-braced collar roof, and the north and south stained glass windows date from the 1850s and 1890s. The east window, dated 1879, is likely by Holiday and Powell and features flanking commandment panels with nodding ogee heads.