Parish Church Of St Nicholas

The parish church of St Nicholas is a small church with origins in the early 13th century. It comprises a nave, north aisle, and chancel, with the chancel extended later in the 13th century by one bay, featuring three windows and a double piscena. The tower likely dates to the late 13th or early 14th century, with later 14th-century completion. The north doorway is of transitional style. The north porch, chancel arch and screen, and tower arch date to the 15th century. The roofs are modern replacements, likely following wartime bomb damage.

The church is constructed of flint and rubble originally plastered, with limestone and clunch dressings. A clunch arcade, piscena, and openings are also present. The roofs are covered in graded slate with modern stone parapets and kneelers. The four-stage west tower has an embattled parapet and shallow plinth. It features sealed belfry lights, a two-centred west doorway arch of two chamfered orders, a three-light window with intersecting mullions and a belfrey window of two cinquefoil lights.

The north porch has a partly restored 15th-century moulded arch. The north doorway has a round-headed arch with label stops and two slender ringed shafts with water leaf capitals and moulded bases. The north aisle, which is unbuttressed, exhibits long and short stone quoins. It contains three lancet windows, one of which is modern. The chancel retains original 13th-century flint coursing, showing a straight joint where it was extended. The three lancet sanctuary windows, all partly restored, feature detached shafts with deeply moulded bell capitals and bases. The north window has two lights, the south window three, and the east window three lights with a common label.

The late 13th-century double piscena has two deeply moulded two-centre arches with trefoiled inner arches, divided by detached shafts with deeply moulded caps and bases, and a label with finely carved foliate stops. The north arcade, spanning three bays and one bay terminating in the tower wall, features two-centred, steeply pitched arches with labels. Octagonal piers have plain capitals and bases. The 15th-century tower and chancel arches are two-centred with two chamfered orders, moulded capitals and bases, and semi-octagonal piers. The contemporary screen is carved on both sides, with a blind ogee arch of the central span, showing rosettes in the spandrels and evidence of former painted decoration.

The early 14th-century square limestone font stands on a single shaft with a moulded capital and base and a square plinth. 19th-century stained glass windows, by A Gibbs of London, are also present.