St Nicholas

C16

Ragstone and tufa with plain tile roof.

West tower: Early C12, large squat, plinthless and battlemented, of 2 stages, with pilaster buttresses and tufa quoins and dressings.

reference to spire from 1492.

Pointed-arched and shifted C13 sandstone west doorway set in round-arched tufa-dressed opening.

South aisle: possibly C12 walls with tufa to lower quoins, otherwise C14, with C19 alterations.

2-largely C19 south windows in C14 style.

South porch: C19 in C13 style.

Ribbed and studded Medieval door.

South Chapel: C14, with remains of moulded plinth.

C15 three-light south window in moulded stone architrave with rectangular, possibly C19, door immediately below.

C15 east window, with tufa relieving arch below.

Chancel: probably rebuilt in C16.

North chapel: late C15, on moulded plinth with roll-and-hollow cornice and stone-coped ashlar parapet.

One C15 three-light east and one north window.

North aisle: C12.

Interior: Structure: partly restored early C12 tower arch

3-bay C15 north and south nave arcades

C15 chancel arch and west arches to chancel chapels, each of 2 hollow chamfers, inner order springing from corbelled imposts.

2 short blocked Saxon windows with eliptical heads high up in north wall of north arcade.

C15 three-light squint between north chapel and chancel, with hollow-chamfered mullions, three-centred arched heads and hollow spandrels.

Fittings: 3-seat sedilia in south wall of chancel with 4 slender off-set buttresses and moulded cornice, cuspless and possibly C16.

Plain octagonal stone font.

C15 eleven-bay rood-screen across east end of nave and both aisles, with finely-cusped tracery.

Slender attached columns between bays with moulded capitals providing springing for intri- cately carved C19 fan vault and corniced walkway.

Partly restored C15 parclose screen to each chapel.

North chapel screen provides front for C17 pew with lozenge panelling and carved frieze.

C17 staircase with turned balusters against north wall of tower, leading to bell chamber.

Brass chandelier in nave dated 1778.

Monuments: 2 small early C16 brasses to centre of nave, one to William Merden, d.

1509, the other to Katherine Lambe, d.

Large standing wall monument on north wall of north chapel to the Rt.

1643, erected after death of son, Sir William Meredith, d.

Wall monument on north wall of north chapel to Henry Meredith Esq., d.