Church Of Saint Nicholas

The Church of Saint Nicholas is a Grade I listed building located on Main Street in North Grimston. It dates from the 12th and 13th centuries, with a 15th-century east window and remodelling of the south side of the chancel in the 18th century. The church features a west tower with clasping buttresses, a four-bay nave with a south porch, and a three-bay chancel. The tower has a lancet window that shows evidence of a former triangular hood-mould, and it includes early 13th-century sculpture of Saint Nicholas, depicted with a tunic of tightly folded drapes over one arm and a staff in the other. There is a string course and pointed double belfry openings, along with a plain coped parapet. The weathering line of an earlier steeply-pitched roof is visible on the east face of the tower.

The nave has opposed north and south round-arched doorways. The north doorway is in a plain frame with a panel above featuring a pair of Anglo-Danish affronted beasts, while the south doorway, located in the porch, has two orders with roll-moulding and nailhead. The nave also contains square-headed and pointed two-light windows, and a corbel table with Anglo-Danish beast heads on the north side. The chancel features square-headed windows and a door beneath keyed stone lintels to the south, with two lancets on the north side. The east front has a three-light Perpendicular window.

Inside, the chancel arch consists of two orders, with the outer order featuring a zigzag pattern. The font is a massive Norman drum adorned with reliefs depicting the Last Supper, the Descent from the Cross, and Saint Nicholas in episcopal robes. There is a 14th-century coffin slab with an elaborate foliate cross in the chancel. Notable monuments include one for Elizabeth Cracroft, who died in 1602, featuring a brass inscription plaque surrounded by four brass coats of arms in an elaborately carved stone surround. Another monument is for Thomas Langley, who died in 1723, consisting of a tablet flanked by Corinthian columns, resting on a shelf supported by consoles, and topped with a scrolled pediment and achievement. A similar but less ornate memorial is dedicated to Thomas Langley, who died in 1697.