Church Of St Nicholas

The Church of St Nicholas is a parish church built in 1871 by Sir Arthur Blomfield, with an earlier chancel. It features flint walls and a tiled roof. The church is in the Early English style with Geometrical tracery. It has a nave with four bays and a north aisle, a chancel with a north vestry, and a tower located south of the west bay of the nave. The nave roof extends over the aisle and has gables on two of the bays, while the chancel and vestry have lower roofs. The walls are made of flint with Bath stone dressings, and there are stepped buttresses and a plinth. The windows consist of coupled cusped lancets in a Geometrical form, with tall coupled west windows beneath a triangular window, all under a single hood mould. The slender tower has corner pinnacles, a crenellated parapet, thin stepped corner buttresses, and a south-east stair turret, with the ground floor serving as an open porch.

Inside, the church features Early English details and Victorian Gothic furnishings. There are several wall monuments from the old church, dating from 1723, 1737, 1802, and 1841, as well as an imposing classical monument from 1679 in the chancel, dedicated to Sir Richard Knight. This monument displays a recumbent figure in white marble on a table tomb, framed by a background panel in the Corinthian Order and topped with a shield. The church also contains a reredos triptych by C.F. Bodley, featuring a Crucifixion (circa 1600 by a Netherlands painter) flanked by panels with two figures of saints each. Additionally, there is a rood screen by C.F. Bodley with a carved wooden Crucifix and an 18th-century Communion rail. The stained glass is by Kemp, and the nave pews were replaced in the 20th century. The nave roof is of the hammerbeam type, supported by arch braces on large brackets.