St Nicholas

Complete if small, very finely and sumptuously decorated late C12 building, only a 2 light C15-window in the west wall not of C12 date although here also is a C12 lancet and quatrefoil.

Two sets of attached shafts, the capitals carved with beasts and charging armoured knights, the inner shafts with water leaf volutes as are the spurred bases to the shafts.

Three orders around tympanum, with an outer enriched, foliated roll mould, then a dozen sunk medallions with signs of the zodiac and the labours of the month, but also with some warriors and Samson, with a thick roll within this with animals cavorting and playing musical instruments, with a figure of a bishop at the apex.

An inner roll of enriched foliate design surrounds the tympanum, which has loops of foliage enclosing figures of angels, human heads and beasts, with central figure of Christ in a mandorla.

Continuous enriched band in nave at sill level and raised over door heads, with trefoil and flower ornament, with carvings on north wall of a fox and a rabbit apparently stewing another rabbit and a monkey blowing a pipe

Glass: C19 in style, in the wheel window, by W. Miller, Paintings: Very faint traces in the chancel north-east window, the only remains of very extensive paintings destroyed in the 1839-41 rebuilding.

Monuments: Thomas Boys d.1599, wall plaque in chancel.

Black and white alabaster monument with strapwork base, and side pieces with ribband and strapwork decoration, topped by cornice with ball and steeple finials and achievement in strapwork surround.