Church Of St Nicholas

The Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II* listed building dating from the 13th to 15th centuries, with later alterations in 1863 and 1874. It is constructed of coursed rubble stone with quoins and features roofs made of leaded, Swithland slate and Welsh slate. The church has stone coped gables with finials and includes a nave with a west bellcote, a chancel, a north vestry, and a south porch. The nave is supported by buttresses with set-offs and has flat-topped Perpendicular windows, including a west two-light window with a small one-light window to the south above it. The gabled bellcote has two rounded arches and houses bells. The north side features a two-light window, a doorway, and a three-light window, while the south side has two three-light windows, with the eastern one displaying foliage label stops on its hood mould. The south doorway has a stepped arch.

Inside, the church has a mainly 19th and 20th century four-bay low-pitch tie-beam roof. The chancel arch is double chamfered, with a triple arch to the east, the inner arch resting on polygonal responds. The north vestry and organ chamber, added in 1874, have an arch of the same date leading to the chancel. The east wall of the chancel was rebuilt in 1863 and features a window with geometric tracery filled with stained glass from 1877 by Heaton and Butler. There are two south windows, with the eastern window showcasing curvilinear tracery and 19th century stained glass. An aumbry is present, along with a 19th century two-bay roof. The south porch contains a doorway with a single chamfered arch.

Notable features include a late 14th or 15th century octagonal font and a frieze of quatrefoils that has been reset as a reredos. A marble wall monument, erected by Matthew Saunders in 1612, commemorates his wife Margaret, who died in 1605, and features strapwork and flanking columns. Their tomb slabs are located immediately west of the altar. There may be some medieval work in a fragment of a mainly 19th century screen standing at the west end of the church.