Church Of St Nicholas

The Church of St Nicholas is a parish church dating back to the 11th century. It has undergone restorations in 1832, 1900, and 1973. A vestry was built in 1832 and rebuilt in 1900. The church is constructed of herring bone and coursed rubble, incorporating fragments of Roman brick, with brick, dressed stone quoins, ashlar dressings, and slate roofs. The church comprises a nave with a bellcote, a chancel, and a lean-to vestry.

The nave has plain eaves and an east gable with a cross. The west end features a round-headed doorway of 1832, flanked by buttresses with three chamfered setoffs and plinths. Above the doorway is a gabled bellcote with two round-headed openings housing bells dated circa 1200 and 1350. On the north side, to the west, is an external brick stack, and to the east, a round-headed window within a splayed reveal. The south side contains two round-headed windows from the 19th century, each with moulded heads, hood moulds with dogtooth and mask stops, and splayed reveals. The single-bay chancel has an east window and a smaller similar window on the south side, both dating from the 19th century. The vestry, to the north, has a mullioned and transomed three-light leaded window.

The nave has a moulded round-headed west door with moulded square imposts and a chamfered plinth. The roof is from 1900, featuring a moulded wall plate and chamfered tie beams. The 11th-century chancel arch has heavy roll moulding and chamfered square imposts, supported by round piers with small incised scallop capitals. The chancel includes stained glass from 1900. On the south side of the chancel, to the east, is a 14th-century cusped trefoil-headed piscina, and to the west, a blocked splayed window opening. The chancel roof is similar to that of the nave.

The church contains a font with a chamfered square base and stem, supporting a 17th-century splayed eggcup bowl, and a panelled, painted ogee-domed cover with a ball finial, circa 1800. There is also an early 19th-century lectern with a turned base and five clustered stems, a 19th-century pierced traceried reading desk, moulded oak benches from circa 1900, and a 20th-century turned altar rail. Monuments include a Classical-style slate and marble tablet dated 1765 and 1812, slate and marble tablets dated 1843, 1846, and 1855, a Roll of Honour, and a brass plaque from 1933.