Church Of St Mary And St Nicholas

The Church of St Mary and St Nicholas is a parish church that was originally the chancel of an Augustinian Priory church founded in 1244. The western section of the church serves as the nave, while the eastern end, which is in the Early English style, functions as the chancel. The north transept chapel, known as Chetwode Chapel, was rebuilt in the 17th century and features a Decorated window. The west tower dates from the 15th to 16th century and was partly rebuilt and re-roofed around 1820. The church is constructed of rubble stone with a slate roof. The west tower has a pebble-dashed upper section, a hipped tiled roof, and includes a perpendicular doorway and windows.

The nave contains a small perpendicular 2-light window and a window with Y tracery in the west wall, along with two Decorated windows in the south wall and an altered window in the north wall. The eastern end features lancet windows, with three on the north and south sides and five on the east wall. Internally, these windows have moulded arches on shafts, with moulded caps on the east window and caps carved with foliage and beasts on the north and south windows. The south window contains 13th-century glass in the central light and 14th-century glass in the flanking lights. The east window has glass signed by William Holland from 1842.

The south wall features an Early English arcade above a piscina, sedilia, and a priest's door, all adorned with moulded caps and dogtooth ornamentation between the shafts and arch mouldings. The north transept includes a Decorated arch leading to the nave, a plaster ceiling with wooden ribs that mark the groin and rest on wooden corner shafts with carved heads at the cap and base. There is a family pew with 17th-century panelling and a cast iron fire-grate. Additional fittings include a wall monument to Mary Risley from 1668, which features a tablet flanked by mourning women, 18th-century floor slabs, hatchments, a 17th-century door, and painted wooden panels dated 1696 in the nave that commemorate church repairs by W Lawley, complete with pediments and side scrolls.