Church Of St Nicholas

The Church of St Nicholas is a church largely of the 12th century, with alterations and extensions dating to the 13th, 15th and 19th centuries. It is constructed of coursed regular ironstone rubble with a lead roof. The church comprises a chancel, nave, north aisle, west tower, and a north porch.

The chancel has Late Decorated/Perpendicular east and south windows. An Early English lancet window has been inserted into the splay of a Romanesque south window. The nave incorporates a blocked two-centred doorway with a hoodmould, and two 3-light Perpendicular windows on the ground floor, along with three 2-light windows to the clerestory. The north aisle features two 2-light windows with intersecting tracery in the north wall and one 3-light similar window in the east wall. The west tower is of three stages, with lancet windows to the first stage and 2-light Perpendicular windows to the belfry. The west doorway is two-centred with a hoodmould, and diagonal buttresses are present on the north-west. The north doorway has two orders of roll moulding, fragmentary dogtooth decoration and capitals with embryonic stiff leaf decoration.

Inside the chancel, two blocked Romanesque arches are visible on the north wall. The Early English chancel arch has the head of a Romanesque arch above on the north side. A trefoiled head piscina is set into the south wall of the nave. A doorway to the rood loft is located behind the pulpit. The north arcade, dating from around 1170, features three round, unchamfered arches and piers with square bases and scalloped capitals. A 14th-century font has a square bowl on an octagonal base. 15th-century bench ends in the nave are carved with blind tracery and quatrefoils, with others dated around 1893. One bench, constructed from a 15th-century rood screen, is carved with rosettes and cusped arches. Stained glass depicting a biblical scene is found in the south chancel window, likely designed by Mowbray or Oxford around 1915. Monuments include one to Mrs Mary Whately, wife of the Rector, dated 1657 on the north wall of the chancel, and one to Anne Deane dated 1774 on the south wall of the nave. Crenellated parapets adorn the west tower and stone finials are present on the north aisle.

The church underwent restoration in 1893 by Milne and Hall of London, with the builder being J.S. Kimberley of Banbury.