Church Of St Nicholas

The Church of St Nicholas is an Anglican parish church with significant fabric from the 12th century, 13th, 14th, and mid-19th centuries. It is constructed of rubble stone with stone tiled roofs and coped gables. The church comprises a nave, chancel, south porch, a 19th-century sanctuary, and a north vestry. A saddle stone defines the west gable of the nave. Decorated crosses mark the chancel and sanctuary gables, while a fine 13th-century bell turret rises from the east end of the nave. The bell turret is stone and has a cross plan with nook-shafted posts supporting a short, 15th-century octagonal stone spire, featuring a dripmould base, moulded cap, and a 20th-century weathervane.

The west window of the nave displays intersected tracery with a hood, restored in 1935. On the south side is a 15th-century two-light window with a quatrefoil head. The 14th-century south porch has a chamfered two-order arch with a hood, and a blocked west-side door. The roof timbers have been renewed. A 12th-century south doorway features two columns with carved caps supporting a plain arch, framing a stone tympanum with a cross in a beaded circle. The doorway is fitted with an oak plank door, complete with nailhead studs and iron hinges. A 15th-century four-light window, displaying damaged cusping to the lights, is also present on the south side, with a hood mould decorated with carved square stops. A single bead-moulded two-light window dates to 1730, and there is a circa-1900 vestry with a slate roof and brick dressings on the north side.

The chancel’s south side features a 14th-century two-light cusped window with a quatrefoil head, along with a 12th-century single arched light set in a splayed surround. A similar 12th-century window is found on the chancel’s north side, alongside a blocked 13th-century single light. The 19th-century sanctuary has a three-light east window. The nave and chancel both have small buttresses at their east ends.

Inside, the nave contains 18th-century box pews and a late-18th-century west gallery with fielded panels on the front. Original features include a 12th-century circular font adorned with a band of zig-zag ornament, a 14th-century doorway leading to the north vestry, and stained glass windows dating from 1938 (north window) and circa 1906 (south four-light window). A 19th-century wood pulpit and five-bay roof boarding are also present. The 15th-century chancel arch is slightly pointed and continuously moulded. The chancel roof is boarded and the sanctuary arch, similar to the chancel arch, is from the 19th century. The sanctuary's east window was installed in 1905 by Bell of Bristol. A notable feature is a series of wall plaques, dating from circa 1695 to circa 1823, commemorating the Mountjoy family in the chancel; one is dated 1734 and signed M. Sidnell, and another from 1807 is signed Brewer of Box. Additional plaques from the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries are found in the nave.