St Nicholas

the label has carved head stops of a similar style to some at Sherborne Abbey.

There are three buttresses to the north wall of the nave and a C19 window and two C16 or C17 windows of two segmental-headed lights set in square heads to its north elevation

The early-C14 west window has two pointed lights in a two-centred head.

the angel corbels have been reset in nave.

The narrow benches have elaborate carved ends depicting scenes from the Life of Christ and other religious figures and scenes

the one closest to the pulpit was altered in 1848.

There is C16 or C17 linenfold panelling behind the altar and by the west door.

The pulpit is probably C19 but incorporates some possible late-medieval panels, and the font is also probably C19 and has an octagonal stone bowl on cluster of four shafts with moulded capitals and bases.

ST6305 : St Nicholas, Hilfield: font

© Basher Eyre

At the western end of the nave's north wall is a fragment of a C17 wall painting of the Lord's Prayer in black script, discovered in 1961.

Memorial plaques in the nave commemorate those men from Hilfield St Nicholas who died during the First and Second World Wars.

The Communion rail has been placed at the entrance to the chancel which has C19 encaustic floor tiles and there are poppy-headed stalls.

The bell is dated 1726, and the registers date from 1565.