Architectural Features
the remainder mainly rebuilt during the C16.
some Tudor brick, especially for window mullions and dressings
A flat roof to the south aisle, with a row of gargoyle heads below the parapet.
Tower in 3 stages, unbuttressed, with crenellated top and gargoyle waterheads
It is divided inside into 3 sections with stone walls between: the central section was the family pew of the Jermyn family, and the eastern bay is their funeral chapel, containing various monuments of the C17 and early C18, including a black and white marble monument with reclining figure to Thomas Jermyn, d. 1692, and another to Sir Robert Davers, d. 1722, with a grey sarophagus surmounted by a broken pediment with garland.
Shallow-pitched chancel roof in 4 bays, like a cambered ceiling: tie-beams with a formalised leaf-type motif, mouldings to trimmers and joists: ornate carving and brattishing to the cornice, and shields on the corbels.
The nave and chancel windows contain fragments of medieval stained glass and there are 2 complete figures in the east window.
The floor of the chancel is completely paved with late C17/early C18 black ledger slabs.
The seating in the nave was introduced in the 1840's at the instigation of Col. Rushbrook of Rushbrooke Hall, and is arranged against the north and south walls as in a college chapel, in Victorian Gothic style, incorporating some fragments of medieval woodwork.
A curious tiered timber font in the west end of the south aisle was also introduced by Col. Rushbrooke.
TL8961 : St Nicholas, Rushbrooke - Font
A timber and plaster tympanum infilling the chancel arch, and resting on what is said to be the rood beam, bears the royal arms of Henry VIII with a dragon and greyhound as supporters, flanked by a portcullis and Tudor rose.
TL8961 : St Nicholas, Rushbrooke - Royal Arms