Church Of St Nicholas

The Church of St Nicholas is an Anglican parish church located in Standish Village. It dates back to the early 14th century and was restored around 1867 to 1869 by J.P. St Aubyn. The church is built from coursed dressed stone and features a chamfered plinth, with a stone slate roof that has coped verges and cross finials.

The structure includes a west tower and an aisleless nave flanked by north and south porches, along with a chancel that has a 20th-century octagonal vestry to the south. The narrow tower is supported by stepped diagonal buttresses up to the first string course, which is above the level of the nave roof. It has single trefoil belfry lights on the upper stage and a tall spire adorned with roll mouldings along the edges and four gablets at the base, topped with a weathercock. Each face of the tower has narrow slit stair lights.

The north and south porches are simple in design, also featuring stepped diagonal buttresses. The north porch has a double chamfered outer pointed arch, stone seats, and a single chamfered inner arch. The nave consists of three bays, while the chancel has two bays. All windows are 2-light Decorated ogee trefoils with a quatrefoil above, except for the five-light east window, which has reticulated intersecting tracery. The south wall has a projection that marks the location of the rood stair.

Inside, the plaster was removed during the 19th-century restoration, and the chancel was re-roofed. The nave roof is panelled and features 180 carved wooden bosses, along with two moulded tie beams and plain crown posts. There is a rood loft stair opening on the south wall and a small depressed ogee piscina on the north wall. The chancel arch is very large and chamfered. The box pews, made by Anthony Keck in 1764, were slightly lowered during the 19th-century restoration. A painted stone classical wall monument on the south wall of the nave commemorates Sir Henry Winston, who died in 1609 and was an ancestor of Sir Winston Churchill.