Church Of St Nicholas

The Church of St Nicholas is a parish church that dates back to the 12th century, with a chancel and porch added in the late 13th century, a tower built in 1761, and an aisle constructed in 1832. The church underwent restorations in 1896 and 1908. It is built from rubble stone with stone dressings and features old plain tile roofs, stone tile lower courses on the chancel, a brick tower and aisle, and a shingled spire.

The layout includes a 12th-century nave, a late 13th-century chancel, a south porch, a west tower, and a north aisle with vestries at both ends. The chancel has a four-light Y-tracery east window and a gabled kneelered roof. On the sides, there are two similar two-light windows and a pointed south door. The nave features a 16th-century two-light trefoiled square-headed window on the south side, beneath a label with a crest and headstops. The gabled porch has a two-order pointed archway.

Inside, the south door from the 12th century has two round-headed orders, with the inner order being square and featuring abaci, while the outer order consists of columns with scalloped capitals and an arch adorned with chevrons. Above this, there is a tall 18th-century timber cross window under a hipped roof, and to the west, there are two 19th-century two-light windows stacked one above the other. The north aisle has a small pent-roofed vestry to the west, while the south side has three timber Y-tracery windows. The tower is accentuated by rusticated corner pilasters, a round-headed door to the west above a semicircular window, and round-headed louvred bell openings, topped with a moulded cornice and a spire that rises from a domed base.

Inside the chancel, there are 19th-century Gothic monuments, including one that surrounds the south door. In the southwest corner, there is a 14th-century septfoiled recess, and the 17th-century pointed plastered roof features ribs with pendants. The chancel arch is likely a round-headed rebuild from the 17th century, but above the timber tie beam on the nave side, there is plaster with trellis wall painting. In the nave, the roof is supported by a beam on two cast-iron columns, with an early 19th-century gallery to the west on similar columns. The late 12th-century Purbeck font has a square bowl with round-headed arcading, resting on a replaced central column and corner columns, and is accompanied by a 17th-century font cover. The pulpit is in the Jacobean style from the 19th century, and there is an 18th-century Royal Arms Board, along with early 18th-century altar rails featuring turned balusters and moulded handrails.