Church Of St Nicholas

The Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II* listed building located in Thistleton. It features a 14th-century tower, while the rest of the church was largely constructed in 1879. The building is made of ashlar stone and has a Collyweston slate roof with stone-coped gables. The church consists of a west tower, nave, and chancel.

The west tower has three stages, a plinth, clasping buttresses, and four bell openings with hood moulds. It is adorned with corner gargoyles, battlements, and pinnacles featuring crockets. There is a west window with a hood mould and label stops, along with a small door beneath it. A staircase door is also present. The west arch leading to the nave has a double chamfer, with one hollow and the other dying into curved responds. The nave has a shallow curved boarded roof and three south windows with Curvilinear type tracery, as well as a south door. The south porch is made of stone, featuring a gable and wooden open work. A similar single window is located on the north side.

Inside, the church has a stone floor with a diamond pattern of narrow black tiles. The chancel has a curved apse on the inside and a polygonal shape on the outside, with a boarded roof featuring cusped sections that create square panels. The east rose window is flanked by two additional windows, and there are four terracotta statues of saints in gabled niches, signed by M. Raggi in 1879. A terracotta relief of The Entombment, also likely by Raggi, is located above the altar. The church features a Minton tiled floor and 19th-century stained glass throughout. A stone pulpit is accessible from the chancel through a doorway, topped with a foliated gable. The church also includes a contemporary font and open carved oak pews.

Externally, around the apse, there is a moulded band that rises over the windows, along with a rich frieze of ball flowers and foliage, complete with gargoyles. There is a door leading to the north organ vestry, and the north wall is close to the rear wall of the Old Rectory, with which the church forms a notable group.