Church Of St Nicholas

The Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II* listed building located on Eydon School Lane. It dates from the 13th and 14th centuries and was restored and enlarged between 1864 and 1865 by R.C. Hussey, who added the south aisle and extended the north aisle eastward to create a vestry. The church is constructed of squared coursed ironstone with limestone dressings and has a slate roof. It features a chancel, a north vestry, an aisled nave, a south porch, and a west tower.

The east window of the chancel is from the 19th century, while the south side has three 14th-century two-light windows with flowing tracery. The north aisle contains three 14th-century two-light windows with flowing tracery and a late Perpendicular west window with three arched uncusped lights and a square hood. There is a blocked 14th-century north doorway. The early 14th-century west tower has two stages, a crenellated parapet, and 19th-century pinnacles, with bell openings and a west window featuring Y-tracery. The west doorway is adorned with continuous mouldings.

Inside, there is a 14th-century piscina recess with a cusped ogee arch in the chancel. The chancel arch consists of two chamfered orders supported by corbels carved with leaves. The four-bay north arcade has double chamfered arches and an early 13th-century round pier with a square abacus to the west; the other piers are from the 19th century. The church also has a Romanesque font with a base resembling an octagonal scalloped capital and a recessed circular bowl decorated with fluting and a band of stylized leaves around the top. The north aisle features stained glass heraldic shields, created around 1830 by Russell of Oxford. In the south aisle, there is a badly weathered stone effigy of a lady from the 14th century and a monument to the Rev. Francis Annesley, who died in 1811, created by Bacon junior. This monument consists of a grey and white marble wall tablet with an urn in shallow relief, positioned above a doorway in the south aisle.