[1] The writer Simon Jenkins suggests the building was a re-building, following a fire in 1296 which destroyed the original church.

[2] The priest's door near the porch appears somewhat earlier than 1300, but the architectural historian John Newman suggests that this "cannot be taken as evidence of Norman fabric".

[4] The architectural historian John Newman describes St Nicholas's as "one of the finest churches in the county".

[3] Jenkins suggests that the interior is "handsome but curiously cold";[2] it was plastered and painted, and a new floor laid, in the 1992 restoration.

[1] Donated by Lady Probert, of The Argoed, Penallt, and dated 1689, it shows three of the main attractions of Trellech; Tump Terret, with the inscriptions MAGNA MOLE ("Great in its Mound") and O QUOT HIC SEPULTI ("Oh!