Church Of St Nicholas

The Church of St Nicholas is a parish church largely dating to the 13th century, with a 14th-century tower, refenestration in the 15th century, and restoration and reroofing in 1912-13. A vestry was extended and a west end gallery removed in 1934-36. The church is constructed of roughcast over rubble, with Ham stone dressings and slate roofs with coped verges.

The church comprises a three-bay nave, a chancel, a northeast vestry, and an entrance through the south tower. The two-stage crenellated tower features a lancet bell opening and a moulded wooden Tudor arch head opening. The internal door to the tower is chamfered in two orders with a hood mould, and contains an early 17th-century ribbed door. A holy water stoop is positioned to the left, marked with a consecration cross. There is also a wooden partition fronting the internal tower steps. The tower has three-light cinquefoil headed hollow chamfer mullioned windows. The chancel has a three-light window, a blocked priest's door with a semi-circular head and chamfered surround, a lancet to the right, and a three-light east window. The north front has a lancet, while the vestry's east front has a lancet and a door. A 20th-century window is located on the north front. A blocked rood stair door is visible at the junction with the nave. The nave has two three-light trefoil headed mullioned windows; the western one illuminates an effigy in a tomb set into the interior wall, which bulges outwards and is heavily buttressed. A three-light west window is also present. A south wall flight of external steps leads to a blocked doorway that formerly gave access to a gallery. A two-light window is situated on the south wall.

Inside, the walls are of random rubble and the chancel is whitewashed. A depressed pointed chamfered chancel arch and a tower arch are visible. The nave has 20th-century wagon roofs, with earlier wall plate remaining. A blocked ogee headed priest's doorway is located in the chancel, and a blocked semi-circular headed doorway is found in the nave’s south wall. A blocked opening to the rood stair is also present. A fine, circa 1500, five-bay fanvaulted screen is enriched with a cornice of four friezes and vineleaf decoration, with panels of dado thought to be from the early 17th century. Old wall plate and 20th-century panelling are located at the west end. The interior also includes a 19th-century pulpit, pews and communion rails, a Norman circular font with ribbed cable moulding at the base of the bowl, and the cut-down jambs of western windows on the north wall, which accommodate a circa 1300 female effigy flanked by possible candlesticks. A niche on the north wall contains a male effigy of a young layman. The church escaped extensive 19th-century restoration, retaining a great deal of its original fabric.