Church Of St Nicholas

The Church of St Nicholas is a parish church built in 1863 for Eleanor Maclean by architect Anthony Salvin on a medieval site. It is constructed from coursed red and calciferous Lazonby sandstone with flush quoins, set on a chamfered plinth. The roof is made of graduated greenslate and features coped gables and cross finials. The church has a three-bay nave with a north aisle, a south porch, and a west square three-storey tower. The chancel is two bays long and includes a north vestry.

The tower features a west three-light plate-tracery window, upper-floor lancets, and a south clock face. It also has a large two-light bell opening flanked by cusped side panels, all with pointed heads under hoodmoulds. The tower is topped with a battlemented parapet and has a north projecting angle stair turret. The porch contains a studded plank door set in a pointed arch.

The nave has flat-headed two-light windows with cusped heads, along with a similar single window on the right that has a rounded head. The aisle has two-light windows with cusped heads. The vestry includes steps leading up to a priest's doorway with a shouldered arch, cusped-headed windows, and a three-light east window with plate-tracery.

Inside, the church features a three-bay arcade of pointed arches supported by round columns and an open timber roof. There are carved tracery screens in the tower arch, baptistry, and chancel. The doors are decorated with panels of scrolled leaves, and there is a carved oak pulpit on an octagonal stone base, along with a carved oak eagle lectern.