Former Parish Church of St Nicholas, With Day Centre
FORMER PARISH CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, WITH DAY CENTRE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086418
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Former Parish Church of St Nicholas, With Day Centre
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER PARISH CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, WITH DAY CENTRE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086418
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Former Parish Church of St Nicholas, With Day Centre
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER PARISH CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, WITH DAY CENTRE, HIGH STREET
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:
- FORMER PARISH CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, WITH DAY CENTRE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Medway (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 73541 69295
Details
STROOD HIGH STREET TQ 7369 SE 6/277 Former Parish Church of St Nicholas, with Day Centre 24.10.50 II Former parish church, now partly a day centre and partly a chapel. W tower C14 much renewed, body of church 1812 by Robert Smirke. Late-C19 and late-C20 additions to N, the latter for offices to day centre. Coursed rubble ragstone, Welsh slate roof, tower with flint and ragstone banding. The interior has been divided, but the 3 E bays of the nave still used as a chapel. W tower, undivided nave, shallow sanctuary, S porch. Tower: no buttresses; the round-headed W doorway and blocked window above do not look Norman. The flint and ragstone banding decoration is normally taken to be C14. 3 stages and battlements; quoining. Triple lancet belfry openings. Smirke's nave, 5 bays, round-headed 2-light windows with transoms; renewed stone parapet; shallow pedimented sanctuary with 4 round-headed lancets and a roundel contained within a superordinate arch; very wide angle pilaster strips. S porch, also pedimented, partly glazed doors and fanlight with glazing bars. 2 late C20 glazed doors punched into nave (S wall, to W) to serve day centre. Interior: Perpendicular tower arch. Sanctuary ceiling and arch with Edwardian paintings of angels on decorative background, oil on plaster. Earlier, Victorian, stained glass to E and side windows.
Listing NGR: TQ7354869290
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173212
- 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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