New Church Of St Nicholas

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

KELVEDON HATCH

TQ59NE CHURCH ROAD 723-1/5/431 (North side) New Church of St Nicholas

II

Church. 1895. By JT Newman. Red brick, roofed with flat red tiles. Nave and chancel same width, apse in form of a bay window, projecting porch and tower over it at W end of S wall and vestry at E end. Projecting organ chamber at W end. Small transept and utility room on N side. EXTERIOR: S elevation. 4 bays of alternating buttresses and lancet windows, vestry , embattled parapet, butressed corners and 2 dated water-heads, central boarded door with window each side, deep mouldings, 4 dormer windows, each with double casements, each light 5x4 leaded panes and curved herringbone timbering in each gable. Porch and tower of 3 stages, lower 2 buttressed, ground floor has central boarded door in 2 centred arch, first stage has 3 lancets, outer ones blind, centre one glazed, upper stage timber, louvred with short, tiled, octagonal spire rising from a pyramidal roof with deep overhanging eaves. N and S faces of tower similarly detailed. N elevation, nave with 6 buttressed bays, 5 lancet windows and 4 dormers. Transept 2 butressed bays, dated water-heads, boarded door in lancet head on W side, lancet windows on N and E sides. E elevation. Projecting, barge boarded gable, Lower lancet window in each of 3 faces of apse with triple lancets above in E face. Vestry E wall has twin lancets with conjoined hood mould under embattled parapet. W elevation. W wall of nave, 3 glazed lancets with continuous hood moulds, organ chamber, gabled with 3 glazed lancets. INTERIOR: softwood roof, hammer-beam and side purlin form with king post to ridge purlin, raking struts and ogee wall braces to hammer-beams. Chancel roof similar but cusped principal rafters to corbels in place of hammer-beams. Lancet windows of nave with internal splays and segmental rear-arches. Screen, pulpit, altar rails and other fittings in wrought-iron - ogee motif, leaf and flower embellishments. Screen has central ogee headed arch with 6 narrower side bays similarly treated, embattled top with central pediment surmounted by a cross, lower continuous rail with ogee ornament and pair of central gates. Nave windows progressively replaced by memorial windows in stained glass. E windows stained glass.

Listing NGR: TQ5688498973

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/0236 IOE Records taken by R Brealey; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr R. Brealey. Source: Historic England Archive

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