Church of St Nicholas
CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1057311
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/06703/15
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1057311
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- 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:
- Somerset
- District:
- Somerset West and Taunton (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Withycombe
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 01530 41301
Details
ST04SW WITHYCOMBE CP WITHYCOMBE VILLAGE
8/113 Church of St Nicholas
22.5.69
GV I
Parish church. C13 chancel, C14 tower, nave refenestrated C15, church restored and reroofed 1912-13, vestry extended and west end gallery removed 1934-36. Roughcast over rubble, Ham stone dressings, slate roofs, coped verges. 3-bay nave, chancel north east vestry, entrance through south tower. Two-stage crenellated tower, lancet bell opening, moulded wooden Tudor arch head opening, inner door chamfered in 2 orders with hood mould, early C17 ribbed door, holy water stoop left with consecration cross incised above, wooden partition fronting internal tower steps; right 3-light cinquefoil headed hollow chamfer mullioned windows, 3-light window to chancel, blocked priest's door, semi-circular headed with chamfered surround, lancet right, 3-light east window, buttress, lancet on north front, east front of vestry lancet and door, C20 window north front, rood stair door blocked at junction with nave, two 3-light trefoil headed mullioned windows, western one lighting effigy tomb on interior wall, bulging out and heavily buttressed, 3-light west window, south wall flight of external steps leading to blocked doorway to demolished gallery, 2-light window. Interior: random rubble, chancel whitewashed. Depressed pointed chamfered chancel arch, tower arch. C20 wagon roofs, earlier wall plate in nave. Ogee headed priest's doorway blocked in chancel, blocked semi-circular headed doorway in nave south wall, blocked opening to rood stair. Fine 5-bay fanvaulted screen circa 1500 enriched cornice of 4 friezes, vineleaf decoration, panels of dado thought to be early C17. Old wall plate and C20 panelling at west end. C19 pulpit, pews and communion rails, Norman circular font, ribbed with cable moulding at base of bowl. Jambs of western windows in north wall of nave cut to accommodate female effigy circa 1300 flanked by what may be candlesticks, crenellated with stepped buttresses and carved with faces amidst foliage, probably not originally designed for present location and very unusual. Niche low down on north wall contains male effigy of young layman. An interesting church that escaped C19 restoration. (Photograph in NMR),
Listing NGR: ST0152841302
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265396
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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