Church Of St Nicholas

The Church of St Nicholas is a former parish church, now under the care of the Redundant Churches Fund. It largely dates to the 13th century, with later additions and a 19th-century restoration. The church is constructed of flint, with some conglomerate and brick, and limestone dressings. It features a continuous pantiled roof over the nave and chancel.

The west tower is octagonal in plan, with tall lancet windows on each face of the belfry, linked by roll moulding. A glazed lancet window is present on the west face, and the tower parapet has brick corner battlements. A Norman west doorway has scalloped capitals and zig-zag arch moulding, and may have been reset. A small brick stair turret with a pointed arched door opening is located between the tower and nave on the south side. Nave windows are two-light Decorated, with much restoration evident on the south side. A Late Norman south doorway exhibits zig-zag arch moulding. The Early Decorated chancel has two-light 'Y' traceried windows and a five-light east window with cusped intersecting tracery. Three-light Perpendicular windows are present in the north and south chancel walls. Staged buttresses with 19th-century decorative stone panels are visible, as is a coved and plastered eaves to the chancel. Diagonal buttresses to the east wall incorporate grotesque carvings on the gable oversailing course. A fine head-corbel and a small blocked niche are located above the east window head. Staged buttresses with gabled tops mark the junction between the nave and chancel. The north vestry has two-light, cusped north and south windows with square labels. The upper level of the tower incorporates a 17th-century dovecote, lined with brick nesting boxes, accessible via a lancet window in the west face of the tower. A Fine Early English north doorway features a single order of shafts, a keeled roll-moulded arch and dog-tooth ornament.

The interior has undergone substantial 19th-century restoration, including panelled ceilings with stencil decoration to the nave and chancel roofs. A 19th-century Perpendicular stone tower screen is present. Corbel heads and shafts in the chancel and on the north and south walls of the chancel are also from the 19th-century remodelling. A trefoil-headed piscina and dropped-cill sedilia are located on the south wall of the chancel. A 19th-century stone communion rail is also present. Early stone coffin slabs are set into the floor at the foot of the altar steps. A monument on the north chancel wall commemorates Ann Newbury, who died in 1707. An 18th-century pulpit and box pews are found in the nave, and a 15th-century octagonal font, featuring seated figures under ogee arches on the bowl and standing and seated figures on the stem, is also present; this may have been re-cut in the 19th century.