Church Of St Nicholas

The Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II* listed building located in Chinnor, with parts dating back to the 14th century. The tower is from this period, while the chancel and nave were partly rebuilt around 1874 by architects Charles Buckeridge and J.L. Pearson. The church features a squared stone plinth, coursed stone rubble, and old plain-tile roofs. It has a four-bay nave, a two-bay chancel, and a west tower.

The entrance to the nave has a two-centre arched doorway with a moulded arch and hood mould, leading to a 19th-century plank door. There are paired lancets with flat heads on either side of the doorway, and the chancel has two-light Y-tracery windows. The east end of the church also features a Y-tracery window. The tower is supported by angle buttresses and has louvred lancet openings with flat heads on each side, topped with a saddleback roof.

Inside, the chancel has a braced collar truss roof, while the nave features a 19th-century kingpost roof. The chancel includes a carved wood reredos, a stone piscina and sedilia, and an encaustic tile floor. A 14th-century two-centred chancel arch rests on half-octagonal columns, with a piscina to the right and a 19th-century pulpit to the left. The church also houses a round stone font from the 14th century, set on a shaped plinth.