Church of Saint Nicholas

CHURCH OF SAINT NICHOLAS, CHURCH ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1113944
Date first listed:
23-Jan-1961
List Entry Name:
Church of Saint Nicholas
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF SAINT NICHOLAS, CHURCH ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1113944
Date first listed:
23-Jan-1961
List Entry Name:
Church of Saint Nicholas
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF SAINT NICHOLAS, CHURCH ROAD

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF SAINT NICHOLAS, CHURCH ROAD

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

District:
Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Tingrith
National Grid Reference:
TL 00727 32436

Details

TINGRITH

TL 0032 CHURCH ROAD

20/114 Church of Saint Nicholas 23.1.61

GV I

Parish church. C15, reworked 1845-6, including surrounds and tracery of most openings. Coursed ironstone rubble with ashlar dressings. Chancel, N vestry, nave, N and S aisles, S porch, W tower. All parapets embattled except N aisle. Chancel: 4-light E window, 2 3-light windows each to N and S, all with 4-centred-arched heads. NW window blocked by organ. Small pointed- arched S doorway. Small hexagonal turrets project from NE and SE angles. N vestry: small C19 addition, with pointed-arched door to E and single light to N. Nave: 3-bay pointed-arched, similar to chancel arch. Clerestory has 3 3- light windows per side, all with 4-centred heads. N aisle: 2-light E window, 2 3-light N windows, all with 4-centred-arched heads. Pointed-arched N doorway. S aisle: fenestration similar to N aisle. S porch: gabled, with pointed archway, and 3-light 4-centred-arched window to each side. W tower: 3 stages, with octagonal stair turret projecting from NE angle, and diagonal buttresses to W angles. 2-light pointed-arched windows to each side of bell- stage. W elevation has pointed-arched doorway surmounted by 3-light 4- centred-arched window. Interior: nave retains brass to Robert Hogeson, Lord of the Manor, d.1611. C17 and C18 monuments to chancel. Other fittings mostly C19. Nave and aisle roofs are C15 in style but apparently C19 reworkings. Mid C19 stained glass to chancel and aisles.

Listing NGR: TL0072732436

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Legacy System number:
38096
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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