Church Of St Nicholas

The Church of St Nicholas is a parish church located in Hinxworth. It features a 14th-century tower and nave, with alterations from the 15th century and a rebuilt chancel from around 1830. The building is constructed of flint rubble with clunch dressings, while the chancel is made of chequered red brick with stone dressings.

The west tower is two-stage, with angle buttresses and battlements. It primarily uses clunch and includes a two-light traceried west window and similar belfry windows. The south porch, dating from the 15th century, has a shallow-gabled parapet and a four-centre-arched door set in a moulded square frame. The west side of the porch features a hooded three-light window, while the corresponding east window is blocked. The nave is battlemented and has three-light traceried windows on both the north and south sides, each with six trefoiled lancets in the tympanum. Other windows in the nave are one and two lights, except for a three-light net-traceried east window. The north nave door has a simple 14th-century pointed arch.

Inside, the aisle-less nave has a late 19th-century panelled roof that retains four 15th-century carved wooden corbel figures. There are two canopied niches located in the splay of the north nave window and in the southeast corner of the nave. A spiral rood staircase is situated next to the north window. The large west arch features semi-octagonal shafts, while the chancel arch from the 14th century is mis-shapen. The chancel has a panelled ceiling with simple bosses, a reeded dado, and an altar back from around 1830. The church contains good early to mid-19th-century stained glass.

In the chancel, there are brasses on the north wall from the mid-15th century and on the floor depicting a man, woman, and six children, believed to be John Lambard, an Alderman of London who died in 1487. The church also features a mid-18th-century pulpit with fielded panels, a 16th to 17th-century rector's chair, and a small mid-19th-century octagonal font.