Church of St. Nicholas/Or All Hallows

The Church of St. Nicholas/or All Hallows is a parish church dating back to the 13th century, with significant rebuilding in the 18th century and a largely complete reconstruction around 1860. It is built of ironstone rubble with ashlar dressings, incorporating red brickwork, fish scale red tiles, and plain brown tiles for the roofs. The church comprises a west tower, nave, south porch, chancel, north aisle, and vestry.

The three-stage west tower has a tall plinth with a chamfered top, two chamfered string courses, and a parapet moulding, with the top of the parapet in 19th-century brickwork. Splayed angle buttresses are present on the first stage. The bell openings on each face are 13th-century plain paired lancets. The west doorway is 18th-century with a semi-circular head, plain imposts, a deeply inset six-panel door, and a single 13th-century lancet window above the door. The north aisle has a separate gabled roof from the nave and a red plain tiled roof with stone coped gables. The Early English style windows consist of a single east light, a single west light, and two three-light north windows. The chancel has a brown tiled roof, a roll moulded string course, a single north light, a three-light east window, two lancets, and a priest's door on the south side. The nave’s south wall has a fish scale tiled roof. A lightly inscribed slab dedicated to Richard Todd, who died in 1733, is set in the nave wall at high level. Also built into the wall are the end of a 13th-century grave slab with a floriated cross and two pieces of chevron moulding. The south side of the nave has a single three-light window and a single two-light window, with a 12th-century slab bearing incised chevron ornament built into the wall below the two-light window – possibly part of a grave slab. The 19th-century south porch and doorway incorporate a small, 13th-century floriated cross in relief carving, built above the doorway.

Inside, the 13th-century tower arch is pointed and triple chamfered. The rest of the interior dates from the 19th century and includes a four-bay north arcade with pink marble piers, a cast iron screen, and a pulpit, all dating from the 19th century. A table tomb, under an arched recess in Gothic style, is located in the north aisle, commemorating William Chambers, who died in 1855, and his wife, who died in 1858. The chancel contains an inset memorial to the Wright family, dated 1894. A fine 13th-century coffin lid carved with a tree and serpent roots is situated on the south side of the nave. It is believed that the church may have been partly rebuilt using stone from the demolished Church of St. Nicholas at South Kelsey, potentially explaining the confusion over the dedication.