CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1022442
Date first listed:: 25-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1022442
Date first listed:: 25-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS

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District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bremhill
National Grid Reference:: ST 94664 74288

Details

BREMHILL TYTHERTON LUCAS ST 97 SW 7/74 Church of St Nicholas GV II* Anglican parish church, C13 rebuilt 1802 and mid C19, rubble stone original masonry, squared rubble stone to later work, stone slate roofs with coped gables. Nave, chancel, north aisle. Paired west gables of square rubble stone with plinth. Nave has small bellcote and 3-light window with Tudor-arched heads to lights, possibly C16, aisle has larger bellcote and 2-light Y-traceried window of C13 type with hoodmould, possibly original. Aisle north wall is also of squared rubble but moulded trefoil-cusped doorway seems original, as also Y-traceried 2-light to left. East wall of aisle has original masonry and 3-light window with intersecting tracery. Gable has crocketed saddlestone. Nave south wall is rebuilt with plinth and two 2-light flat-headed C16 style windows. East end saddlestone and finial to gable. Chancel has original masonry to south, three C19 lancets, one over blocked low door, rebuilt east wall with basket-arched window and hood, possibly C15 with C19 tracery. North wall has old masonry and three C19 lancets. Interior: plastered nave and aisle roofs with large coves each side, thin 3-bay arcade of round chamfered arches on slim octagonal piers with sparse still-leaf to caps, C13, heavily restored. C19 chancel arch, pointed on heavy chamfered piers. Tri-lobe opening in wall to left. Chancel has plain C19 roof. Fittings: fine c1200 tub-shaped font with raised arcading, band of gables over and fluting below. In north aisle good wall monument to Abjohn Stokes, died 1725 and plaque to T. Crook, died 1821, recording that he had church rebuilt in 1802. Aisle east window has glass of c1915 by Mayer of Munich. Nave has west window of c1893 and south wall plaque to L. Crook died 1822, with urn. Chancel has north wall plaque to H. Barret died 1627 and east wall plaque to A. Jacob died 1653. two lancets have stained glass of 1869. (N. Pevsner, Wiltshire, 1975 541)

Listing NGR: ST9466474288

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Legacy System number:: 316198
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975), 541

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.