Church Of St Nicholas

The Church of St Nicholas is an Anglican chapel of ease, now serving as a parish church, built in 1892 by J.W. Hopkins of Worcester. It features a timber-frame structure with a thatched gabled roof. The building has six A-frame trusses that extend beyond the walls to iron shoes elevated off the ground on brick, connected under the floor by tie-rods. The walls consist of boarded sandwich panels filled with sawdust, with horizontally boarded sections below and herringbone boarding between the windows. The church has leaded timber windows, with two 3-light windows on each side, large mullion-and-transom end windows, a 4-light window to the west, and a 3-light window to the east, all featuring Gothic fretted wood tracery in the top-lights. Similar tracery can be seen in the angles between the principal beams and the outer walls. There is a thatched gabled south porch. The interior is entirely boarded and includes a carved wood screen and a wood font. The church was built as a mission church for £170, or £220 with fittings, designed to be an alternative to the "hideous and comfortless iron buildings so generally used."