St Nicholas

C15 tower.

C14 sandstone ashlar and C18 red brick (Flemish bond)

Three stages with moulded parapet string, gargoyles and crenellated parapet.

On the south side a lancet and a C15 window of four lights beneath a 4-centred arch.

C13 three-bay north arcade: octagonal columns with moulded capitals and pointed arches of two chamfered orders.

In the north aisle a C13 piscina and a lancet to the west blocked by the tower.

Font of circa 1200 with a wavy band of stiff leaf.

Gothic style wooden pulpit of 1895.

MONUMENTS.

The entire south aisle is taken up by the Mavesyn Chapel which contains the family monuments.

They are incised with the effigies of medieval ancestors but are actually late C18 or early C19, for they are not recorded by Stebbing Shaw in his engravings of the chancel Also three small alabaster reliefs depicting battles fought by Mavesyns, of similar date.

In the centre, Sir Robert Mavesyn died 1403 at the battle of Shrewsbury with an C18/C19 effigy.

At the east end Thomas Cawarden, died 1593, and his wife Anne.

On the floor at the east end are incised slabs to David Cardon, died 1557, and wife

John Cordon, died 1485, and wife

John Cordon, died 1477

and Hugh Davenport, died 1473.

In the north wall are two recesses containing recumbant effigies, both knights, one C13, the other early C14.

In the nave is a C17 tablet containing two brasses and a tablet to William Robinson, died 1771, with an obelisk and draped urn above.

Stained glass.

Listed Grade I as a complete example of a late C18 church rebuilding including a very rare late C18 and early C19 conversion of a medieval aisle to the former church into a family chapel with neo-medieval fittings and monuments.