Church of St Nicholas
CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1048680
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1048680
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Baulking
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 31726 90705
Details
BAULKING SU39SW 5/3 Church of St. Nicholas 21/11/66
GV I
Church. Mid C13. Coursed limestone rubble, nave walls rendered over; limestone ashlar dressings; stone slate roof. Chancel, long nave, small bellcote to west. 3 mid C13 pointed lancets to each window; north and south walls of chancel have 2 pointed lancets. North wall of nave has plain mid C13 doorway with moulded impost and early C15 three-light cusped window with label mould to left; south wall has similar mid C13 doorway and 2 late C13 two-light windows; corner and wall buttresses including one flying buttress to south dated 1882. Limestone coping slabs to gabled roof, rendered walls to bellcote which has pyramidal roof. Interior: 3 east window lancets are shafted on the inside; late C19 and early C20 stained glass windows; corner piscina to south wall. 3-bay roof; butt purlins, arch-braced collar trusses possibly of late Cl6 date. To north of chancel screen are blocked rood stairs. Mid C13 unusual rood screen pierced by square openings. Nave has stone flag floor with some ledger stones near door; Jacobean pulpit brought from Grittleton (Wiltshire) and placed on late C19 limestone base; octagonal limestone pulpit; late C19 benches and vestry screen to west; fragments of C14 nativity scene on north wall. 2 early C18 and one late C18 wall tablets, and also on the north wall a painted wall tablet in memory of Robert Grove, died 1693. 6-bay roof in Jacobean style with pendants to tie beams but dated 1708; braced collar trusses, butt purlins. A complete example of a small mid C13 church with unusual screen and some C14 wall paintings. (Buildings of England: Berkshire, pp.78-79).
Listing NGR: SU3172390703
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 250832
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 78-79
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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