Church of St Nicholas

The Church of St Nicholas is a parish church located in Shepperton. The church was largely rebuilt around 1600, incorporating fabric from a prior, older building. A tower was added in 1710 and restored in the 19th century, with a vestry added in the 1930s. The church is constructed of sandstone and flint chequerwork rubble in the south wall, with flint rubble plinths and north walls, and dun coloured brick vestries. The roofs are covered in plain tiles.

The church comprises a nave and chancel facing east, with a tower to the west, and substantial transepts and a vestry to the south east. The two-stage tower features stone and tile coping to the battlements, diagonal offset angle buttresses on the west face, and a plat band between the stages. The upper stage of the tower has a brick-chamfered surround with openings under round arched heads in each face, with a renewed triangular-head leaded window on the west face. A studded panelled double door, set within a chamfered and moulded surround with foliage decoration in the spandrels, provides access from the west. A further pointed-head panelled door, approached by an external flight of stairs with wrought iron railings, is located on the south side. The nave has Late Perpendicular style windows; one rectangular diamond-pane window on the south, and larger two-light, cambered-head windows to the right. The west end of the nave features buttresses, and a single two-light window under a flat head and in a chamfered surround on the north side. External stairs leading to a C19 door on the first floor of the north transept provide access to an internal gallery. A five-light window with a hood moulding is present in the north transept, and a two-light window in the north side of the chancel, along with a larger three-light window over a tile sill to the east. The brick vestry to the south of the chancel has wood-framed, leaded casement fenestration. A five-light Perpendicular window is found in the south transept. A blocked door on the south side of the nave is located near the west buttress, featuring a hood mould and four-centre arch.

The interior includes a glazed-in lower stage with an early 19th-century gallery bearing the Royal Arms of 1801-1816. 19th-century pews and panelled piers are also present. The nave features a ribbed and panelled vaulted roof on moulded wall plates, while the transepts have three-quarter round piers on octagonal pedestals with octagonal caps and a two-step, chamfered order. A manor house pew in the north transept is accessed by an external stair and thin cast-iron pillars of quatrefoil section. Round capitals and octagonal piers define the chancel arch, above which is a crenellated wall plate with a star-decorated panelled roof.

Fittings include a 19th-century reredos flanked by finials over carved and traceried arcades, a tall timber rood screen with double gates at the centre, a 19th-century stone font with an octagonal bowl displaying floral bosses and an octagonal stem, and a late 19th-century pulpit. Also present is an early 20th-century marble and mosaic memorial to Lord Blythswood.