CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS

CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1110370
Date first listed:: 16-Aug-1960
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1110370
Date first listed:: 16-Aug-1960
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, HIGH 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.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Ashmore
National Grid Reference:: ST 91132 17777

Details

ST 91 NW ASHMORE HIGH STREET (north west-side)

11/8 Church of St Nicholas 16.8.60. GV II

Parish Church, 1874 by Charles Edwards of Exeter. Chequerwork greensand and flint. Gable-ended, tiled roof with stone copings. Ashlar west bellcote. Plan: nave, chancel, north aisle, north vestry and organ chamber, south porch. In the 'Decorated' style. All major windows have large, square, projecting impost blocks. Nave has 2-light windows under 2 centred heads with labels. Chancel has lancets with labels and 3-light east window. Vestry and aisle have paired lancets. West wall has 2 lancets with a round window containing 4 quatrefoils above. Slit cross above. Gabled porch with moulded 2-centred arch with label. South chancel door has trefoiled head. Interior: 2-centred chancel arch of 2 chamfered orders with flat soffit; aisle to vestry arch 2-centred with flat responds (possibly former chancel arch); chancel to organ chamber arch is 2-centred with flat jambs having corner shafts; arch braced collar truss nave roof with king-posts and struts, alternate principals springing from corbels; similar chancel roof but with 2 levels of cusped windbraces to purlins; corbels carved in relief by John Skeaping C20; ogee headed piscina; octagonal pulpit with panelled tracery; C18 font with cauldron shaped bowl on baluster shaped stem (bowl may be C12); C19 square font bearing crosses in sunken relief on octagonal pier with marble corner shafts; C19 glass, C18 and C19 wall monuments reset; C20 painted reredos by W H R Blacking; other fittings largely C19. (RCHM Dorset, vol IV, p 1/2, no 1. Newman J and Pevsner N, The Buildings of England: Dorset, Penguin, 1972, p 78. Pitfield, F P, Dorset Parish Churches, A-D, Dorset Publishing Company, 1981, p 37-39).

Listing NGR: ST9113217777

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 102850
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Royal Commission on Historic Monuments; Inventory of Dorset Vol 4, (1972), 1-2
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 78
Pitfield, FP , Dorset Parish Churches, (1981), 37-39

Legal

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