Church Of St Nicholas

The Church of St Nicholas is an Anglican parish church located in Winsley Village. It features a 15th-century tower, while the rest of the church was rebuilt in 1841 by R.S. Pope of Bristol. The building is constructed of ashlar stone with slate roofs, coped gables, and finials. The tower is almost detached and has three stages with a saddleback gable. It was originally at the west end of the medieval church and is now connected by a short link to the southwest corner of the new church. The tower includes diagonal buttresses, a plinth, string courses, a cornice with gargoyles, and a gabled parapet.

Each side of the tower has two-light bell-openings, except for the south side, which features a canted stair tower that reaches into the gable. The west side has a three-light window in the Perpendicular style, while the east side has been refaced with a pointed door and several re-sited plaques. The tower arch, which is shafted and wave/hollow moulded, is blocked within. The north side link has an open pointed archway below an enclosed passage with lancets on each side.

The 1841 church includes a plinth, diagonal buttresses, a moulded parapet, a short chancel, and a large south porch. The west end is designed for a nave-and-aisles layout, featuring a slightly advanced center with a three-light window and single lancets on each side. The nave has three large pointed Perpendicular style two-light windows with leaded lights and hoodmoulds. The porch is heavily coped with a finial and has a moulded pointed arch. The south door features a heavily moulded arch with double panelled doors. The chancel has a gutter on corbels instead of a parapet and a three-light east window.

Inside, the church is aisleless with a six-bay roof supported by timber trusses that include some cusping and iron tie-rods, along with a plain west gallery. The chancel arch is plain, and the chancel has mid-19th-century encaustic paving that extends into the nave, along with a stone rail and a High Victorian style timber pulpit on a stone base. The east window is adorned with Gothic panels that flank painted Commandments and stained glass from around 1924. A 15th-century panelled octagonal stone font is also present.