Church of St Nicholas
CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1044721
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jul-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1044721
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jul-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH HILL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Woking (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 03987 58231
Details
TQ 05NW
6/25
BOROUGH OF WOKING
CHURCH HILL
PYRFORD
Church of St. Nicholas
22/7/53
I
Church. C12, restored in 1869 by Sir T.G. Jackson. Mortar covered puddingstone,
iron stone and clunch dressings; plain tiled roof with wood shingled bell
turret under broach spine restored in 1967 to west end. Nave, north and south
porches, with chancel to the east. Central medieval buttress to west end.
North porch, timber framed with brick infill. North door Norman; zig zag
carving to arch, simple capitals, one scalloped one with plain leaves to jamb
shafts. Round arch Norman windows to north side of chancel and either side of
the buttress on the west wall; C14 east window, remainder Victorian restorations.
Interior: Arched braced roof, 3 trusses to the nave. 2 to the chancel, round
one step chancel arch. Fittings: Fine geometrically panelled Jacobean pulpit
with tester, inlaid dated on the front - 1628. Remnants of wall paintings:
south wall c1140. Flagellation of Christ and a Psychomachia; north wall of
nave: Pilgrim's Way c1200, restored 1970.
PEVSNER: Buildings of England: Surrey (1982 ed.) p.419.
Listing NGR: TQ0398758231
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 290728
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1982), 419
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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