St Nicholas

chancel, the chancel with some late C14 windows.

South aisle widened very early C14, north aisle slightly later.

C15 west tower.

Clerestory added late C15.

Tall C15 tower of 4-5 stages with chamfered plinth and strings, off-set angled buttresses, and battlemented parapet with corner finials and carved gargoyles.

South door has early C14 pointed arch, finely moulded and with label over.

Gabled south porch with double chamfered arch, the inner order on shafts with worn carved capitals, the left stiff-leaf, the right with cable moulding.

Another worn carved stone is re-set in inner walls of porch.

Chancel raised and re-roofed C16.

West bay of chancel retains pairs of C13 narrow arched lights, those to south blocked below low transom.

Windows in east bay are C14, part restored, and have 3 traceried lights.

East wall of chancel has C20 3-light window with intersecting tracery, and memorial slab to Edward Staples, 1697.

Label has restored carved heads.

Fine nave roof of late C15 date, with moulded beams, carved spandrels and carved foliage bosses.

West wall of north aisle incorporates part of rebuilt C12 semicircular arch with moulded zig-zag ornament.

Rood screen is C15 with elaborate traceried panels

inserted C17 balusters.

Nave has 2 C15 benches, with poppyhead ends.

South aisle has C15 parclose screen to east end, also with traceried panels.

North aisle has 4 C18 panelled box pews, mid-late C18 2-decker pulpit, and large medieval chest with iron straps.

Chancel has mid C17 turned wooden altar rails but table of c1600 has been moved to south aisle.

Scraped circular stone font is possibly C12.

There is also a C18 marble font of baluster type.

Windows contain many fragments of medieval stained glass but east window is early C20.........................................................

Elizabeth Bainbrigge 1614 in chancel, with wooden canopy above

3) small C17 brass inscription tablets

4) tomb chest with effigy of Elizabeth Langhan, 1501, the sides with small figures of monks, all in painted marble

5) 4 large C16 alabaster slabs with incised figures and inscription 6) various C18 and early C19 marble wall tablets, mostly to members of Bainbrigge and Storey families, one of 1797 with carved allegorical figure.