Church Of St Nicholas

The Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II* listed building dating from around 1100, with 15th-century elements, and was restored in 1860 by James Fowler. It is constructed from ironstone rubble, some limestone rubble, and ironstone ashlar, topped with slate roofs. The church features a west tower, a nave, a south porch, and a rectangular chancel. The late 15th-century west tower has a plinth and includes a 19th-century lancet window on the west front, along with three 15th-century bell openings, each with small weathered lancets. Above, there is a moulded 15th-century parapet.

On the north side of the nave, there are round-headed arches from two blocked early 12th-century arcade bays. James Fowler inserted two windows, each with two pointed cusped lights and a quatrefoil above, featuring polychrome voussoirs. Embedded beneath the west window is a round head from a 12th-century grave marker with four radiating petals. The west corner of the north wall of the chancel shows part of a blocked arcade. The chancel appears to have been raised in the 19th century, with an east end that has a plinth and 19th-century ashlar bands. The pointed east window has three lights with tracery, a hoodmould, and label stop heads, topped with a gable and finial.

The south side of the chancel has 19th-century ashlar bands and a pointed window with two lights, also featuring tracery, a hoodmould, label stop heads, and polychrome voussoirs. In the west corner where the chancel meets the nave, there is a fragment of a moulded abacus from a former arcade. The nave has a plinth running around it, with a pointed 19th-century window of three lights, also with tracery, hoodmould, head label stops, and polychrome voussoirs. The 19th-century south porch includes a pointed double chamfered west doorway with a keeled hoodmould and a reused 15th-century head label stop. Inside the porch, there is a painted chamfered west door with a 19th-century hoodmould, head label stops, and a plank door.

The interior features an early 12th-century tower arch with a round head, large moulded impost blocks, and a plank door. The early 12th-century pointed, double chamfered chancel arch dies into imposts. The roofs are from the 19th century, and the church contains a 20th-century pulpit, lectern, reading desk, pews, and altar rail. The font, dating from around 1100, is basin-shaped on a pedestal with a scallop pattern around the brim. There are various 19th-century monuments, including a large, pinnacled ashlar monument to the Thorold family from the 1870s.