St Nicholas Church is in Windy Arbour Road, Whiston, Merseyside, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Liverpool. The church was built in 1864–68 and designed by G. E. Street in Early English style. Its tower was never completed because of a fear of subsidence. The stained glass in the church includes windows designed by William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. History The church was built between 1864 and 1868, it was designed by G. E. Street, and consecrated on 30 July 1868. Plans had been made by G. F. Bodley to add a crenellated parapet to the tower but, because of concern that the extra weight could result in subsidence due to local coal mining, it was never carried out. Architecture Exterior St Nicholas is in Early English style. It is constructed in coursed rubble sandstone with dressings in red sandstone, and it has slate roofs. Its plan consists of a four-bay nave with a clerestory and a west vestry, north and south aisles, a chancel with its roof at a lower level, a north organ chamber, and a south Lady Chapel. At the southwest is a tower that is almost detached from the church. The tower is in three stages, it has buttresses, and on the east wall is a stair turret with a conical roof. The bell openings have two lights and are paired, the parapet is plain, and the tower has a flat lead roof. The church is entered through a doorway in the south side of the tower. Most of the windows are lancets, many of which are in pairs with a roundel above. The west wall of the nave also has a rose window, and in the west wall of the vestry is a five-light straight-headed window. The east window has three lights. Interior Inside the church the arcades between the nave and the aisles are carried on cylindrical piers with moulded capitals, and there is a two-bay arcade between the chancel and the chapel. The church is floored with encaustic tiles. There is a low stone chancel screen that is integrated with the drum pulpit. The choir stalls are decorated with fleur-de-lis finials and have carved arcades on the front. In the chancel is a painted reredos, and this is flanked