Church Of St Nicholas

The Church of St Nicholas is a building dating from the 13th century, with significant alterations in the 15th century and 18th century, including a west porch dated 1761, a west window of 1826, and a south transept of 1839. It was restored in 1875. The church is constructed with roughcast rendering and stone dressings, with tiled roofs. A 18th-century dormer projects from the north side of the nave, and a weatherboarded bellcote sits centrally on the nave roof, featuring louvred openings on all sides, a pyramidal tile roof, and a weathervane. The church comprises a nave, west porch, south transept, chancel, and vestry. The west porch has a gabled design with a coped parapet and a doorway featuring a moulded semi-circular arch, impost blocks, and a keystone set within a square head. The west end of the nave has a semi-circular arched doorway, likely from 1875, and a blank semi-circular arched window above it, with an architrave, impost blocks, and a keystone. The south side of the nave features two semi-circular arched windows with architraves, impost blocks, and keystones to the west, and a single window to the east with two ogee lights under a segmental head. The north side has two arched windows matching those on the south, to the west, and to the east a 15th-century window with two cusped ogee lights under a segmental head, alongside an early 16th-century window with three cusped lights under a square head. The south transept includes a 20th-century door with a moulded surround and a flat hood to the west, a large semi-circular arch with a dated keystone to the south, and a smaller but similar window to the east, with an architrave, impost blocks, and a keystone. The chancel has two bays, with two two-light windows on the south side, the right-hand window restored in the early 14th century and the left-hand window from the 19th century. The east end features a triple-shafted lancet likely dating from 1875, with hood moulds. An early 13th-century vestry has a single lancet of 1875 to the north. The interior of the nave includes old tie beams and moulded plaster decoration around the windows, probably from 1875. Also present are a 19th-century font and a 17th-century octagonal pulpit. The church contains Flemish and German glass dating from the 16th century, including some from 1649, and a depiction of Moses likely made around 1835. The chancel has a moulded arch of 1875 with granite columns, foliated capitals, and a hood mould with carved stops. A 13th-century lancet with a toothed rear arch leads to the vestry.