Church Of St Nicholas

The Church of St Nicholas dates to 1848 and was designed by Henry Clutton. It is constructed of regular coursed sandstone with slate roofs. The church is in the Gothic Revival Early English style and comprises a chancel, nave, a south-east vestry tower, and a south porch.

The chancel has a two-bay design, and the nave has a five-bay design. Features include splayed plinths, moulded sill courses, and buttresses with two offsets. The chancel east wall has three stepped lancet windows with hood moulds and carved stops. The north side has paired eastern and single western trefoiled lancets. A three-stage tower is set against the south side; the first stage has shallow angle buttresses and a small trefoiled lancet, while the south side incorporates a re-set section of Romanesque arch with zig-zag moulding. A moulded string course runs around the tower. A slit window is on the second stage, and the third stage has chamfered angles, a three-bay arcade with blind outer arches, a slightly larger louvred central opening with paired shafts and a continuous hood mould, a parapet, and a broach spire with trefoiled lucarnes. The west side has a plank door in a chamfered doorway with a hood mould. A north-west stair projection has an octagonal top stage with blind arcading and a pyramidal cap with a moulded finial. The nave has large roof timbers and a frieze of nailhead and stylised heads. Buttresses and trefoiled lancets are found on the north and south sides. The south porch has buttresses flush with the front, a moulded arch with nook shafts and a stilted hood mould, also acting as a string course. The interior is cross-vaulted and plastered. The chancel has a wagon roof, and the east lancets have shafts with shaft rings and a continuous hood mould. A glazed arch provides entry to the vestry, with a stone screen below featuring a segmental-pointed doorway and an arcade of seven small trefoiled arches with a continuous hood mould. The chancel arch is composed of an outer chamfered order and an inner moulded order with large shafts. A canted south-east corner contains a shouldered doorway to a hall. A stone, octagonal pulpit is located nearby. The nave has an arched brace roof supported by stone angel corbels. The vestry has a stone star vault. Fittings include a reredos installed in 1882 in memory of William Stratford Dugdale, featuring cinquefoiled arches, a piscina, traceried stalls, and an encaustic tile chancel floor. An octagonal font with shafts is also present.