Church Of St Nicholas

The Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II* listed building located in Bringhurst. It dates from the 12th to the 15th century, with a roof dated 1802 and restoration completed in 1862. The church is constructed from coursed rubble stone, featuring quoins and stone dressings, topped with a Collyweston and leaded roof. It has stone-coped gables and consists of a west tower, nave, aisles, chancel, and south porch.

The tower has three stages, with diagonal buttresses on the west side. It features a west doorway with a highly moulded arch, a flat-topped two-light window above, and small one-light windows to the southwest stair. There are four two-light bell openings, a moulded string course with central gargoyles, an ashlar parapet with crocketted pinnacles, and a low pyramid roof topped with a weathercock. The nave has a double chamfered round arch leading into it.

Inside, there is a two-bay late Norman north arcade with single-stepped arches on a circular pier, which has richly decorated capitals, including a carved head on the eastern respond. The south arcade, dating from the earlier 13th century, has slightly pointed single-stepped arches with a chamfer on circular piers and responds. The clerestory is in the Perpendicular style, featuring a two-light and a three-light window on the south side and two two-light windows on the north side. The nave has a low-pitch tie-beam roof.

The north aisle contains flat-topped Perpendicular windows, and there is a tablet dated 1707 above the north door. A 19th-century double chamfered chancel arch leads to the chancel, which has tall two-light windows on the north and south sides and a flat-topped three-light window on the east. The chancel features a 19th-century three-bay hammer-beam roof. The south aisle has flat-topped Perpendicular windows and a small one-light window. There is a restored piscina, and the south porch has an archway with a rounded single-stepped arch and a single chamfered south doorway.

The church also houses a 14th-century octagonal font, two George III Royal Arms, one dated 1814 and double-sided, and three early 19th-century slate wall monuments. The nave roof is inscribed with 'W.W. - T.R. 1802'.