Church Of St Nicholas

Parish Church: The Church of St Nicholas dates to the 12th century, with significant additions and alterations in the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries, and a restoration in 1897. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar detailing and has a plain concrete tiled roof. The church comprises a western tower, a nave, and a chancel.

The 13th-century ashlar tower has two and a half stages, with a plinth, two string courses, and a plain parapet. The west side features a two-light window dating to the 14th century with an ogee head, and the north side has a small ogee-headed window. The four belfry openings, one on each face, are from the 13th century and consist of two lights with trefoil heads. A small recessed spire was restored in 1897. Evidence of the earlier clerestory, which was removed late in the 19th century, is still visible. A north aisle was also removed, but during the 1897 restoration, the nave was extended to expose the arcade internally. A reset 15th-century three-light window with a four-centred arch is set within a new north wall of coursed limestone rubble, alongside two 13th-century two-light windows with geometric tracery, both heavily restored. The chancel has been shortened, and the 1897 east window and south lancet are of that date. The south wall of the nave, in coursed limestone rubble with ashlar bands, has two 13th-century three-light windows with intersecting tracery. The early 13th-century south doorway features dogtooth decoration to the arch.

Internally, the north arcade of three bays has late 12th-century octofoil piers, one with flat waterleaf capitals, and two double-chamfered round arches and one pointed arch. The tower arch is 13th century, and the chancel arch is 19th century. A piscina is located in the chancel. The pews and pulpit date to 1897, and the altar rails are from the 18th century. The font is a 12th-century round tub on an octagonal base. Above the chancel arch is a late 19th-century rood, taken from the nearby redundant church of Haceby. Monuments within the chancel include two tablets with segmental pediments and fluted pilasters commemorating William Lodge (d.1736) and Susanna Lodge (d.1737). At the west end of the nave are two classical monuments with Corinthian columns, open pediments, console brackets, shields, and scrolls: one in white and grey marble to John Saunders (d.1685) on the north-west side, and another in white marble to Ursula Saunders (d.1683) on the south-west side. A 14th-century floor effigy of a lady, with her head under an ogee arch, is set in the floor on the north-west side of the nave.