Church of St Nicholas
CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, HATHEROP VILLAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1089446
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, HATHEROP VILLAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1089446
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, HATHEROP VILLAGE
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, HATHEROP VILLAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hatherop
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 15384 05095
Details
SP 10 NE HATHEROP HATHEROP VILLAGE (south side)
2/77 Church of St. Nicholas
26.11.58 II*
Anglican parish church. Rebuilt 1854-55 by Henry Clutton, assisted by William Burges, for Lord de Mauley. Coursed and dressed rubble stone with quoins, tile or slate roofs. Nave with north and south aisles, crossing tower and chancel, small north porch and vestry, and south mortuary chapel. Perpendicular style with French Gothic influences. Tower has long 2-light belfry openings on each face, carved head corbel table and steep saddleback roof with coped verges with end saddlestones and top roll moulding. Weathervane on ridge. Clock to north below belfry, to west above corbel table. Nave of 5 bays with clerestorey to both sides with 2-light Perpendicular windows with arched hoodmoulds, parapet wall pierced with cusped quatrefoils set within square frames and with aedicule and statue in centre on west end. North porch has pierced small quatrefoil parapet and niche over large square doorway with colonnettes recessed in jambs and quatrefoil with mouchettes in spandrels, flanking stepped buttresses. South chapel has similar pierced small quatrefoil parapet on south side, 3 quatrefoil windows and deep French Gothic doorway with high relief carved moulding stops. To either end are stepped buttresses with steeply crossed gable on lowest step and animal gargoyles over. Interior: 3 bay arcade with faceted or cylindrical piers and 5 bay Perpendicular rafter roof supported on carved stone corbel heads. South chapel has 3-bay quadripartite vault, very richly carved frieze and capitals, and contains marble effigy of Barbara de Mauley (died 1844), by Raffaelle Monti of 1848 with flanking angel figures. Very fine stained glass throughout by O'Connor, and Lavers, Barraud and Westlake. Matching pulpit and font with fine diaper work and raised leaf carving. (David Verey, Buildings of England: Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979.)
Listing NGR: SP1538405095
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 128922
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)
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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