CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS

CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1083774
Date first listed:: 20-Aug-1966
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, MAIN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1083774
Date first listed:: 20-Aug-1966
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, MAIN STREET

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, MAIN STREET

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District:: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wetwang
National Grid Reference:: SE 93287 59050

Details

WETWANG MAIN STREET SE 95 NW (south side)

8/73 Church of St Nicholas

20.8.66

GV II *

Church. C12, C13 and C14 with later additions and alterations including restorations of 1895-1902 and extensive restoration of chancel by C H Fowler for Sir Tatton Sykes, 5th Baronet of Sledmere. Limestone ashlar with lead roof. 2-stage west tower, 4-bay nave with north aisle and 2-bay transeptal chapel, 2-bay chancel with single-bay north organ room. Tower: stepped and chamfered plinth. Clasping buttresses with off-sets. To first stage, west side, a lancet window. First-stage band. Twin-light geometric traceried belfry openings to north, south and west sides within round-arched surrounds, to east side are 2 lancet openings. Corbel table of masks and flowers. Projecting embattled parapets with band of mouchette decoration. Pierced quatrefoils to merlons. Stair turret to south-east corner of tower has blocked slit windows. Nave: south side (largely rebuilt). Entrance to second bay a studded plank door within chamfered pointed surround. To first bay a C19 three-stepped cinquefoil light window in cavetto-moulded surround. Similar 3-light window between irregular third and fourth bays with a round- arched and a straight-headed light to either side in double-chamfered surrounds. Chamfered eaves. North aisle: chamfered plinth. Main entrance to second bay a C19 studded plank door in C13 pointed roll-moulded surround on shafts with eroded foliate capitals. To first bay a 2-light, straight- headed, re-cut Perpendicular window under hoodmould with face stops. To west end a similar 2-light window. Low parapet. Transeptal chapel: chamfered plinth, angle buttresses. To west side a 2-light pointed window with geometric tracery to head, to north side a C19 pointed 3-light window with geometric-type tracery to head; to east side 3-light, pointed window with re-cut geometric tracery to head. Chancel: buttresses with off-sets. To south side a priest's entrance, a studded plank door in ogeed surround. Straight-headed Perpendicular-type windows under hoodmoulds to north and south sides. East end has 3-light reticulated-type window under hoodmould with face stops. Interior: double-chamfered pointed tower arch, the inner order with cylindrical responds with moulded bases and capitals. Nave: to north a 4-bay arcade with C13 west bay, westernmost arch is pointed on partly re-cut responds, the others have double-chamfered arches of which the next bay is round but the 2 easternmost are pointed. From west: a cylindrical respond with scallop capital; an octagonal pier, 2 cylindrical piers and an octagonal respond, all with moulded bases and hollow-chamfered capitals. Arch from north aisle into transeptal chapel is double-chamfered and pointed on octagonal respond to north and on octagonal aisle pier to south. To south side a blocked, double-chamfered arch on octagonal responds with chamfered bases and with moulded capitals. To east of this a trefoil piscina. Further similar re-cut piscina to east end of north aisle. Re- used scallop capital in north chapel. Chancel has C19 cinquefoil piscina. Pevsner N, Yorkshire, York and The East Riding, 1978, p 367.

Listing NGR: SE9328759050

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Legacy System number:: 167885
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972), 367

Legal

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