Church Of St Nicholas

The Church of St. Nicholas is a Grade II* listed building located on Church Street in Fleckney. Some parts of the church date back to the 12th century, with much of the structure being later medieval, but the majority of the exterior was completed in 1869 by architect Kirk. The church is built of cobble with limestone dressings and features Welsh slate roofs. It consists of a nave with a western bellcote, a south aisle, and a chancel.

The west wall, dating from the 13th century, includes a central buttress with quoins and a small Y-traceried window, topped by a paired bellcote. The tracery of the south aisle, entirely constructed in 1869, is designed in an Early English style with paired lancets and quatrefoils. The south porch has a gabled roof and features a double chamfered arch on cylindrical shafts, enclosing a resited 12th-century doorway adorned with two rows of chevron decoration, both incised and embossed, alongside slim detached cylindrical shafts that support angular cushion capitals. The arch itself is decorated with a double layer of chevrons and a roll moulded order.

The chancel appears to be from the early 14th century, featuring lancet windows with quatrefoils and a late Decorated east window with three lights of slightly compressed reticulated tracery and an outer hoodmould. A vestry is located to the north, with a newer vestry beyond that encloses a 12th-century north doorway, which has a double chamfered round-headed arch with a hood mould supported by weathered corbel heads.

Inside, the church is predominantly from 1869 in the Early English style, featuring a nave arcade of three bays with cylindrical shafts, round abaci, and double chamfered arches with hood moulds. The double chamfered chancel arch springs from corbels. The steep nave roof has curved principals with long bracing. The chancel retains medieval double sedilia with simple chamfered two-centred arches and a piscina with a Victorian basin set in a medieval recess. There is a Victorian wood reredos and other fittings, as well as pictorial stained glass in the east window from 1925. The Victorian font features a tapering basin with an inscription, supported on clustered filletted shafts.