Church of St Nicholas

The Church of St Nicholas is a parish church with origins in the 12th century, featuring a 14th-century tower and substantial rebuilding during 1846-8 by E. Banks of Wolverhampton. It is constructed of ashlar with clay tile roofs incorporating fishscale bands. The church comprises a single-cell chancel, a five-bay nave, aisles, a south porch, a north vestry, and a west tower with diagonal buttresses.

The west tower, dating from the early to mid-14th century, has a large west window of three lights with cusped intersecting tracery and a plain hood-mould terminated by two grotesque heads. Strings at belfry level feature grotesque heads, and the belfry openings are of two lights with cinquefoil heads. A crenellated parapet tops the tower, and has been restored with corner finials.

The south elevation exhibits stepped buttresses defining the aisle bays. Windows on the aisle and chancel are two-light designs with cinquefoil heads and reticulated or flowing tracery. Returned hood moulds are present. A gabled south porch features a pointed outer doorway. The porch encloses a reset south doorway with a round head comprised of two orders, both featuring chevron ornament and a foliated hood mould, flanked by nook shafts with carved capitals. The chancel contains a reset ogee-headed door with an ogee hood mould.

Internally, the nave arcade is characterised by octagonal piers with 14th-century style capitals and a pointed arcade of two chamfered orders. A tall pointed chancel arch is present and the church features open timber roofs with scissor trusses in the nave and aisles. A monument dedicated to Walter Wrottesley (died 1630) includes a recumbent effigy and five kneeling figures on either side of the tomb chest. The church's stained glass is predominantly 19th-century.