Parish Church Of St Nicholas

The Church of St. Nicholas is a parish church largely dating to the 14th century, with a 13th-century core and a 15th-century west tower. It is constructed of limestone rubble with stone dressings and has a tile roof to the chancel and a lead roof to the nave. The church comprises a two-bay chancel, a four-bay aisleless nave, a south porch, and a west tower.

The chancel has diagonal buttresses and an east window of three lights with cusped intersecting tracery. The north side has two 14th-century windows, each with two trefoil lights and three quatrefoils. The south side has two 15th-century windows of two cinquefoil lights under four-centred heads, and a central south door. The nave's north side features two windows, one of two cinquefoil lights and the other of three, both under four-centred heads. The east side of the nave has an angle buttress, and buttresses flank the west bay. The south side of the nave has three buttresses, an east window of three cinquefoil lights with a four-centred head, and a west window of three cinquefoil lights with tracery under a flat head. A gabled porch is positioned in the third bay from the east, featuring a moulded entrance arch with continuous jambs of two orders and single-light trefoil side windows. The two-stage west tower has a half-octagonal south-east angle stair turret and an embattled parapet. The west doorway is framed by continuous moulded jambs and a flower-filled arch. Above the doorway is a two-light cinquefoil window with a quatrefoil. Two-light belfry windows are set in Tudor heads. All gables are stone coped, and the nave has a plain parapet.

Inside, the 13th-century chancel arch has two chamfered orders with semi-octagonal responds, moulded caps, and bases. The tower arch consists of two hollow-chamfered orders, also with semi-octagonal responds and caps. The chancel roof incorporates a moulded 15th-century wall plate. The nave roof is dated 1827 and features chamfered short kingposts, acorn pendants, shaped double ogee tie beam braces, and battlemented 15th-century corbels. 18th-century communion rails comprise turned vase balusters and square newels. The nave mainly contains 18th-century box pews, although a squire's pew incorporates 16th-century traceried panels. At the west end are restored 16th-century pews with cut profile ends. A pulpit dating to around 1630 is hexagonal, with a canopy and arcaded panels. An 18th-century west gallery is supported by two octagonal posts and has a panel front. The 15th-century font has an octagonal bowl on a moulded base. The 15th-century piscina in the chancel has an ogee head, and the sill of the chancel’s south-east window was lowered to form a sedilia. A fragmentary stoup is located within the porch. Stained glass includes a 15th-century east window with three leaves, a 15th-century north-west window with a leopards head, foliage, and a Stafford Shield, a 15th-century figure of St. Peter in the south-west nave window, and 16th-century Flemish glass and armorial panels in the south chancel windows. An 18th-century Creed, Commandments, and Lord's Prayer is displayed on timber within an architectural frame, featuring a cornice, reeded pilasters, and a pediment. The Hanoverian Arms are displayed in the west gallery. Three 15th-century brasses are in the chancel, and monuments, including those to the Tyringham family (Thomas Tyringham 1629 framed by an architrave, broken pediment and cartouche), are present in the chancel and other areas of the church.