Old Church Of Saint Nicholas

The Old Church of Saint Nicholas is a Norman church that was remodeled in the later Middle Ages. It consists of a nave, chancel, and a central tower. The building is constructed from limestone rubble and features a stone slab roof over the chancel. The nave is currently unroofed and has two Norman doorways with carvings in the tympani, described as a "circle intersected by a four-lobed motif drawn in one line" according to Pevsner. The porch was rebuilt in 1904. The central tower has three stages with clasping buttresses, a Norman window on the south side, and a parapet decorated with pierced quatrefoils in lozenges, although much of it is a modern replacement of earlier Perpendicular work. A stair turret with a spirelet is located to the northeast. The chancel features two Norman windows on the north side and a blocked two-centre arched doorway on the south side. Inside, there are two Perpendicular tower arches. The church is set in a location of high landscape value, overlooking the village and the Axe estuary.