St Nicholas

detail is varied, but the major C19 reconstructions are in rather heavy neo-Norman work.

EXTERIOR: the W front has to the nave a double bell turret with cusped openings and a terminal cross, above a reset C15 three-light window in Ham stone, with casement and label moulds, with head stops of a bishop and a king.

To the left is a 2-light C16 window under square label course, and to the right a 3-light Perpendicular with label to block stops.

The S front has a 3-light window, to block stops, left, and to carved king and queen, right

between these is the C14 porch, with coped gable and cross over a steep pointed plain outer doorway.

The inner doorway is a rich Norman composition with roll, chevron and billet moulds, on column responds with a serpent capital left, and bearded head, right.

At the W end of the aisle is a monument built into the wall under a label and serrated round arch.

The monument has lettering in crude capitals, commemorating William Hopkins the Elder and his wife Mary, died 4 July, also William and Mary, son and daughter, died 22 September 1643.

Set back at the E end of the aisle is the chapel with heavy neo-Norman doorway and adjacent small window.

The projecting chancel has a spiky oculus above a 2-light neo-Norman window.

Built in to the S wall is a tablet with raised oval panel and sunk corners with fans in relief, commemorating Revd Robert Marriott, d.1819, and on the N side a very similar monument to John Furmedge, d.1879.

These slabs are identical with those in the Firth monument (qv) in the churchyard.

The vestry has a large neo-Norman window with scallop and billet embellishments, and is linked to a C20 church room.

INTERIOR: plain whitewashed walls, with a wide nave with 3-bay neo-Norman S arcade, but carrying 4-centred arches, and 4-bay N arcade of plain semicircular arches on slender octagonal piers with thin capitals and no bases, but at the W end a length of plain wall incorporating a plain arched opening at window height

The S aisle has a barrel ceiling in 36 compartments with 30 carved wooden bosses.

The organ at the E end blocks a richly modelled neo-Norman archway.

FITTINGS: a fine C17 five-sided pulpit, pitch pine C19 pews, a C12 Purbeck marble round font with fluted bowl, on plain stem and 4 thin supports.

The brass communion rail has been brought forward into the first bay of the nave.