Church Of St Nicholas

The Church of St Nicholas is an Anglican church dating back to the 13th and 14th centuries, with a restoration in 1900-1901 by Bodley, who added the west end bellcote. Stone rubble construction features freestone dressings and lead roofs, with a tiled roof over the chancel. Extensive ashlar patching to the chancel is attributed to Bodley, and the bellcote is constructed of ashlar masonry. The church comprises a nave, chancel, a north aisle with a northeast chapel, a southwest vestry, and north and south porches.

Architecturally, the nave, north aisle, and vestry roofs are almost flat. The chancel features a three-light Geometric Decorated east window with flat faces to the mullions, likely a Bodley addition, alongside a similar two-light south window. The nave has two square-headed clerestory windows to the north and one similar high-set window to the south. A shallow gabled south porch has a segmental-headed arch to the outer doorway. The northeast chapel includes a large medieval Decorated east window with reticulated tracery, a buttress, a large lancet window to the east, and Perpendicular square-headed three-light windows flanking the north porch; the eastern of these windows lacks cusping. The deep southwest vestry, dating to 1901, has a two-light square-headed 19th-century south window with trefoil-headed lights. The west wall of the nave reveals the outline of a previous steeper roofline. The bellcote extends to the ground and incorporates a tall round-headed west window and a pair of gabled bell openings with ogee arches.

Internally, the church is plastered and painted. A moulded chancel arch sits on shafts. A three-bay 14th-century north arcade presents double-chamfered arches resting on quatrefoil piers with finely-moulded capitals. The church contains 19th-century roofs, including a shallow-pitched Perpendicular nave roof with tie beams, short king posts, short curved braces onto moulded stone corbels, painted red, black, and white with decorative chevrons on the rafters. The chancel is covered by a boarded wagon roof with slender transverse ribs and a wallplate, painted red, black, and gold, with white boarding. The aisle roof features moulded rafters, a purlin, curved braces, and a white painted finish. The chancel includes c.1924 black and white paving and a timber-panelled reredos. Good early 20th century choir stalls, crested and canopied, are located on the south side. The northeast chapel has a moulded tomb recess. A polygonal timber pulpit is decorated with quatrefoils and a low frieze of blind tracery. The 19th-century font has a circular bowl on a quatrefoil stem with a moulded capital. Nave benches have square-headed ends with sunk panels. Numerous 19th-century wall plaques are present, alongside late 19th and early 20th century stained glass.