Church of St Nicholas

The Church of St Nicholas is an Anglican parish church dating from around 1100, with later additions from the 12th, 15th, and 19th centuries. It features diaper-patterned oolite and flint panels, with flint on stone footings for the chancel and flint for the north aisle, all topped with lead roofs. The church comprises a nave and aisle, chancel, north vestry, and a west tower, with a 19th-century south porch.

Architecturally, the church has square-headed three-light cusped windows. The tower is rendered and includes ashlar quoins and angle buttresses, with three tiers, two-light belfry openings, and a crenellated parapet. There are two scratch dials on the aisle quoins, and the east window was designed by G.E. Street in 1857-58. The church underwent restorations in 1876 and 1892.

Inside, the nave arcade consists of two bays on the south side, dating from around 1100, featuring simple round arches and a hood mould. The central pier and responds have a hollow chamfer. There is a chamfered door for a later west gallery that is now absent. The north arcade has three bays from around 1200, with iron-cased round columns and round capitals and bases with leaf bases, supporting two-order pointed arches. The clerestory lancet has been much renewed, and the roof is boarded with cambered ties. The north aisle was almost entirely rebuilt by G.E. Street in 1857-58, while the south aisle dates from the 15th century and was re-roofed in the 19th century. The chancel arch has been rebuilt on skew on 12th-century responds, and the chancel itself has three bays with ties bracketed to corbelled wall posts, likely from the 17th century. The east window is in the Perpendicular style from the 19th century, and the tower arch is tall, featuring two chamfered orders with a mid-20th-century oak screen.

Fittings include a medieval octagonal font with raised pointed arches and a pulpit from 1963 that matches the font.

In the chancel, there are seven wall tablets made of white marble on grey. Notable memorials include those for William Williams (1796), Reverend William Jennings (1833, with an addition by his widow in 1859), Major General William Kirkpatrick of the East India Company (1828), John Williams (1828), Millicent Parker (circa 1954), Joseph Stroud (1856), and Thomas Stroud (1827).

In the vestry, there is a three-panel carved chest from the 17th century, a communion table likely from the 18th century that has been altered, and some 18th-century fielded panelling.

The north wall of the churchyard is constructed of cob with stone copings.