Parish Church Of St Nicholas

The parish church of St Nicholas is a substantial building largely dating to the 13th century, with significant alterations and additions made in the 14th and 15th centuries. A north vestry was added in the 19th century. The structure is built of rubble stone with limestone dressings, and has old tile roofs.

The church comprises a two-bay chancel, a four-bay nave, a two-bay south chapel, a two-bay south aisle, a three-bay north aisle, and a west tower. The chancel features angle buttresses and an east window with three lights of intersecting foiled tracery. The north-west and south-east windows are flat-headed and date to the 15th century, with cinquefoil heads. The north aisle's north wall has a 14th-century two-light east window, a central arched doorway, and a west window with two Tudor arched lights. The west wall has a four-centred arched window of three ogee lights. A south chapel window has two trefoiled ogee lights with tracery in a square head, incorporating moulded labels and decayed headstops.

Inside, the chancel has a piscina in the south-east angle with an octagonal moulded corbel cap. The chancel arch is of two square orders with bowtells and semi-octagonal responds. The nave's north arcade features an east arch of two chamfered orders and an octagonal column, with later 13th-century west bays of two hollow chamfered orders, one column having a moulded base, fluted and scalloped cap. The south nave arcade has semi-octagonal responds, three cylindrical piers (the east one with a scalloped cap), and arches of two hollow chamfered orders. The south chapel has a trefoil-headed piscina and an arch into the south aisle of two moulded orders. The west tower has three stages, with moulded string courses, an embattled parapet, diagonal buttresses, and a stair turret. The west doorway has a four-centred moulded arch, and a three-light window sits above it. The ringing chamber has single-light windows, while the bell chamber has two-light cinquefoil windows.

The church’s interior features Victorian arch-braced collar trusses in the chancel, wagon roofs in the south chapel and north aisle, and a collar purlin roof in the nave. Stained glass angels are found in the south chapel’s east window. The chancel east window is by Powell, designed by G.E. Street in 1857. An Early English style pulpit was also designed by Street. A 13th-century font has a circular bowl ornamented with a shallow arcade of pointed arches.