New Church Of St Nicholas

The Church of St Nicholas is a red brick church built in 1895 by J.T. Newman. It has a flat red tile roof. The church comprises a nave and chancel of the same width, an apse in the form of a bay window, a projecting porch and tower at the west end of the south wall, and a vestry at the east end. There is also a projecting organ chamber at the west end and a small transept and utility room on the north side.

The south elevation features four bays of alternating buttresses and lancet windows. It includes a vestry, an embattled parapet, buttressed corners, and two dated water-heads. A central boarded door is flanked by windows, and there are four dormer windows, each with double casements, five-pane leaded lights, and curved herringbone timbering in their gables. The porch and tower have three stages, with the lower two stages buttressed. The ground floor has a central boarded door in a two-centred arch, the first stage has three lancets (the outer two are blind), and the upper stage is timbered and louvred. A short, tiled, octagonal spire rises from a pyramidal roof with deep overhanging eaves. The north and south faces of the tower are similarly detailed. The north elevation of the nave has six buttressed bays and five lancet windows, as well as four dormer windows. The transept has two buttressed bays, dated water-heads, a boarded door in a lancet head on the west side, and lancet windows on the north and east sides. The east elevation features a projecting, barge-boarded gable. There are lower lancet windows on each of the three faces of the apse, with triple lancets above on the east face. The vestry’s east wall has twin lancets with a conjoined hood mould under an embattled parapet. The west elevation of the nave has three glazed lancets with continuous hood moulds, and an organ chamber with a gabled front and three glazed lancets.

Inside, the church has a softwood roof with a hammer-beam and side purlin form, including a king post to the ridge purlin, raking struts, and ogee wall braces to the hammer-beams. The chancel roof is similar but with cusped principal rafters to corbels in place of hammer-beams. Lancet windows have internal splays and segmental rear-arches. The church contains wrought-iron screens, a pulpit, altar rails, and other fittings, all featuring an ogee motif, leaf and flower embellishments. The screen has a central ogee-headed arch with six narrower side bays, an embattled top with a central pediment surmounted by a cross, a lower continuous rail with ogee ornament, and a pair of central gates. Memorial windows in stained glass have progressively replaced the nave windows, and the east windows also feature stained glass.