Church of St Nicholas
CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1110434
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1110434
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
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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.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Manston
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 81646 15049
Details
ST 81 NW MANSTON
5/62 Church of St Nicholas 4.10.60 GV I
Parish Church. Chancel early C13, nave and north aisle C14, west tower probably dated 1534, aisle shortened and nave windows inserted C17, porch C19, general restoration and north vestry 1885. (There is some disagreement over dating - see RCHM and Newman and Pevsner). Coursed, squared rubble, rubble brought to courses and ashlar dressings. Tiled, gable-ended roofs, some with stone copings. Plan: nave; chancel; west tower; north aisle, north vestry and south porch. West tower: 3 stages separated by strings; octagonal vice turret; embattled parapet; parapet string bears gargoyles; diagonal buttresses to first 2 stages; west door under moulded, 4-centred arch in square surround with label having shield stops; west window of 3-lights under 2-centred head with panel tracery and returned label under a relieving arch; 2nd stage has rectangular west window; 3rd stage has 2-light panel tracery windows under 2-centred heads with pierced stone panels. South nave wall has 3 probably C17 'Y-tracery' windows under 2-centred heads with returned labels. North and south chancel walls have lancets, those of the south wall flanking a 2-centred, chamfered door. East chancel window of 3 graduated lancets under a relieving arch, it bears an inscription 'THES.YEU.TREES.SETT.1690'. Vestry has paired lancets. Aisle has possibly reused lancets and an eastern 2-centred door. Gabled south porch with 2-centred chamfered arch. South door has moulded 2-centred head and continuous jambs. Interior features: 2-centred chancel arch of 2 chamfered orders dying into flat jambs; 2-centred tower arch with blind tracery soffits; 3 bay aisle arcade of 2-centred arches of 2 chamfered orders continuous with piers and responds; west bay of aisle blocked; mid C14 (once external) window of 3-lights under 2-centred head with transitional decorated/perpendicular tracery between a and vestry; Cl9 triplet above chancel arch; squint from aisle to chancel; C17, ribbed, plaster barrel-vaulted roof with tie beams; Cl9 boarded barrel-vault to chancel; flat plastered aisle ceiling; 4-centred, chamfered tower vice doorway; trefoiled piscina in chancel; hemi- cylindrical wall monument to Grace Morris, 1688/9 in chancel with flame finial and urn, flowered side pilasters and spherical base on cherub headed bracket; some early glass; pews, pulpit and font Cl9. RCHM, Dorset, vol III, p 143/4, no 1. Newman J and Pevsner and N, The Buildings of England: Dorset, Penguin, 1972, p 266.
Listing NGR: ST8164715048
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 102690
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 143-144
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 266
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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