Church Of St Nicholas

The Church of St Nicholas is a parish church largely dating to the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries, with Victorian restoration work carried out between 1875 and 1893 by S.S. Stallwood. The church is constructed of flint with plain tiled roofs. It comprises a nave and aisles, a west tower, a chancel, and a south chapel.

The west tower is built of coursed and knapped flint, featuring four times offset diagonal buttresses, a plinth, string course, cornice, and battlements. An octagonal vice rises to the south-east. It has 15th-century Perpendicular windows and a double hollow-chamfered and roll-moulded west doorway. A 19th-century south porch has wrought iron outer gates. The aisles have a plinth and cornice to their low-pitched roofs and contain 15th-century Perpendicular traceried windows. The gable-roofed south chapel has 14th-century Decorated windows. The chancel features a 19th-century Perpendicular style east window.

Inside, the tower-arch is double hollow-chamfered, and partially obscured by an organ loft. A three-bay nave arcade has hollow-chamfered and roll-moulded arches resting on octagonal piers with moulded bases and caps. The north and south arcades exhibit variations in moulding, indicative of different build periods within the 14th century. The nave roof features four crown posts with moulded tie beams; the aisle roofs have cross-beam lean-to construction. The north aisle contains a stair leading to a (missing) rood loft. The south aisle has a double hollow-chamfered arch and hollow-chamfered surround to the chapel, supported by octagonal responds. The south-east chapel incorporates a two-bay arcade of around 1200, now serving as sedilia with billet roll mould, attached shafts with debased capitals in the style of Bapchild (similar to that of the Church of St. Lawrence, Bapchild). The chapel roof has three crown posts. A chamfered two-bay arcade leads to the chancel.

Fittings include a crocketed ogee-headed piscina in the south aisle, and a trefoil-headed piscina in the chancel. A restored crenellated screen separates the chapel from the chancel, forming a canopy over three sedilia. There is a restored screen separating the chancel from the nave. A sculptural fragment of a medieval coffin lid is positioned on the east wall of the north aisle. The altar, reredos, brass altar rail, pulpit, octagonal font, and reading desk are all 19th-century additions.