Church Of St Nicholas

The Church of St Nicholas is an Anglican parish church located on Coombe Road in Dinnington. It was established in 1207, with most of the current structure dating from the 15th century and a restoration carried out in 1863. The church is built from Ham stone ashlar and features a Welsh slate roof with stone slate base courses between stepped coped gables.

The layout consists of a two-cell plan with a 2-bay chancel and a 3-bay nave, including a south porch and a north-east vestry. The chancel has a cill course at the east end, with corner and centre buttresses reaching that level, an eaves course, and a cross finial on the coping. The east window is a 19th-century, 3-light design with Geometric tracery and an arched label featuring uncut block stops. To the south, there is a 3-light window with a semi-circular traceried head set in a deep hollowed flat-arched recess, likely from the late 17th century, along with a narrow pointed-arched doorway to the east, accessed by four steps. The north side includes a lean-to vestry with angled corner buttresses, a plinth, and an eaves course, featuring a 3-ogee-arched light window with a flat head without a label and a chimney stack in the south-west corner.

The nave has a chamfered plinth and eaves course, with bay and angled corner buttresses rising to two-thirds height. On the north side, there are two 15th-century style traceried windows in hollowed pointed-arched recesses, while similar windows are found in the two eastern bays of the south side. The east window has a scratch dial on the jamb, and there is a porch at the west bay. The west window is a 3-light design that matches the others, above which sits a small 19th-century bell turret with a base course, a pair of cusped through-arches for the bells, and a stepped pitched stone roof topped with a wrought-iron cross and weathervane finial.

The south porch features side corner buttresses, with an outer arch likely from the 15th century that includes side shafts in hollows, and an inner arch with a plain wave-mould, while the roof is from the 19th century. The interior is not accessible, but it is noted to have stripped walls, a 14th-century chancel arch, and a triangular-headed arch leading into the vestry. The basic structure of the nave may date back to the 13th century but has been significantly reshaped in the 15th century. Most fittings are from the 19th century, but the font appears to be from the 13th century, possibly recut. In the chancel, there is a large memorial slab dedicated to Worthington Brice, who died in 1649.