Church of St Nicholas

The Church of St Nicholas is an Anglican parish church, largely dating to the 15th century, with a 19th-century restoration. It is constructed of coursed and squared rubble and dressed stone, with lead sheeting roofs and coped verges featuring cruciform finials. The church comprises a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a south porch, a chancel, and a three-stage west tower, all in the Perpendicular style.

The west tower has angle buttresses, small two-light bell chamber windows, an embattled parapet with blind arcading, corner pinnacles, and a squat, lead-covered spire. It features gabled niches to the west wall, a door with an adjacent stoup, two weathered bands depicting figures of angels, a four-light window, and a stair turret.

The nave has a parapet pierced by quatrefoils and pinnacles, and a four-bay clerestory with three-light windows. A lofty, parapetted porch, which features a foiled niche to its gable face, extends above the south aisle. The north aisle has a plain parapet with pinnacles and four bays of three-light windows, one incorporating a doorway. The chancel, of two bays, has a parapet matching the nave and three-light windows to the north and south, along with a five-light east window. A stair turret is situated in the angle between the nave and the south aisle, marking the location of a former rood loft. A shafted south door opening is visible.

The interior is plastered, with tile floors. The chancel roof is panelled and rests on angel corbels, while the nave has a ceiled wagon roof with ribs and bosses, also supported by angel corbels. Lean-to roofs are present in the north and south aisles; the north aisle’s roof is panelled with 19th-century angel corbels, and the south aisle’s roof retains earlier corbels. The north and south aisle arcades have four bays each, with an unusual and narrow additional bay to the west. The piers are of four-hollows section, topped with trumpet capitals, except for the pier adjacent to the tower arch on the north side, which has an additional casement moulding. Both the chancel and tower arches are Perpendicular in style, the tower arch being particularly elaborate with a panelled intrados. The south aisle features a squint, and the remains of 15th-century pews have been reused as panelling. A restored Perpendicular rood screen is also present. The chancel includes an aumbry and a piscina, the former featuring an ogee head.

Furnishings are predominantly from the 19th century, including pews and choir stalls, and brass gates to the screen. A font and pulpit are in a Perpendicular style, and there are royal arms displayed. The north aisle floor has 17th and 18th-century memorial tablets. Significant amounts of 19th-century stained glass are present, alongside fragments of medieval glass in a north aisle window.