Church of St Nicholas

The Church of St Nicholas is a building of group value, dating to the 12th century, with significant additions and alterations made in the 19th century. The original core of the church consists of the south nave wall and the chancel. The west tower was constructed in 1826, and the north aisle and a mortuary chapel were added in 1847 by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin for Viscount Middleton. A south porch was added in 1877.

The church is built of coursed, roughly dressed local sandstone, with clunch dressings and a plinth on the chancel and north aisle. The nave is of sandstone rubble covered in rough lime plaster, featuring clunch quoins and sandstone blocks. The tower has plain tiled roofs. The building is composed of a battlemented west tower, a nave and aisle to the north, a chancel to the east, a chancel chapel to the north, a vestry in the northwest angle, and a south porch.

The west tower has diagonal offset buttresses and a stair turret to the northeast corner. It features arched, louvred openings with splayed ashlar surrounds and cornices. One window with Y tracery is located on the north and south sides. A lancet with a bowl projects from the base, bearing the date 1826 above a two-light Victorian window with a hood mould. The north aisle windows are in Early English style, the chancel windows are Decorated style, and a large three-light window with Star of David tracery under a hood mould with human head stops is located on the east side. A niche memorial to Catherine Broderick (1867) is set in to the west wall of the porch and chancel chapel. The old south door features two plain orders and a round arch.

The interior features a panelled nave roof with floral bosses to square panels. Four lobed grey marble columns with chevron moulding support the arches of the north aisle. Elaborate floral, cusped rear arches are found at the west window. The chancel arch, originally from the 12th century, was remodeled by Pugin. Remnants of a Norman arch are visible in shallow recesses flanking the main arch, which itself is heavily decorated with chevron and cross mouldings and attached orders with scalloped capitals. The chancel ceiling is painted and panelled.

The church contains a Caen stone reredos of five canopied compartments, the central compartment containing a cross supported by angels and cherubim standing on wheels, with four similar supporting structures. Fittings include a pulpit and font, both from the 19th century. Victorian Gothic scripts are painted on the walls of the chancel arch.

Various monuments are present, including a brass to Joan Adderley (1487) featuring a small kneeling figure approximately 14 inches high under an ogee niche. Monuments to Thomas and Catherine Broderick (died 1641) are located on the tower arch wall; these consist of a grey stele with a white cherub's head and portrait busts on either side, attributed to Bushnell. A neoclassical monument to Thomas Broderick (1745) is also present, featuring a grey marble stele with a crowning urn. On the north wall of the chancel is a tomb monument dedicated to George, Viscount Middleton by H. Weekes of London (1836), which was brought from Wandsworth and depicts a semi-reclining figure against a background of Perpendicular tracery.