St Nicholas

C15, 4-stage, tower with clasping buttresses and 3 string courses and cornice below spire.

Stone seats inside and WWI memorial on west wall.

Octagonal, ashlared spire has a WWI memorial clock face on 4 faces, with above, a 2-light gabled lucarne, and above again, a smaller, single-light lucarne.

C19 north aisle has tile roof and west wall with single chamfered lancet.

C12, 3-bay, north arcade, with round arches, with circular piers with capitals with square abaci and bases, and responds with impost bands.

Late C12/early C13 front, capital bowl carved with large shapes, circular base, polygonal plinth.

C19 reredos, altar rails, pews, stalls, organ, lectern, pulpit.

Christ crucified on a leafy tree at centre, Angel Gabriel to left and Virgin Mary to right, and to right again, a shield.

2 C13 stone coffin lids, the smaller with worn, carved pattern on lid, at west end of nave.

MONUMENTS: brass plaque dated 1663 detailing bequest of John Gobert of Coventry Esq, re-sited on north-east corner of tower.

Brass plaque on north wall of north aisle refers to rebuilding of aisle, 1836, by Rev Wm Pearson.

South aisle has 2 C20 wall memorials to Pownall family, and a late C19 brass wall memorial to east of tower arch.

Nave has 2 C19 marble wall memorials above north arcade.

That to west 1861, that to east memory of Rev Wm Pearson Chancel has C20 wall memorial on south wall.

Minton tiles in sanctury, polychromatic in chancel, stone flags in nave, aisles and tower.

C19 stained glass in east window of south aisle, and in east and west windows.

The Nativity

© John Salmon