Church of St Nicholas
CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1117257
- Date first listed:
- 06-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
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- Date:
- 2002-06-14
- Reference:
- IOE01/07084/32
- Rights:
- © Mr Richard Swynford-Lain. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1117257
- Date first listed:
- 06-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wasing
- National Grid Reference:
- SU5759964271
Details
SJ 56 SE
6/17
6.4.67
WASING
WASING PARK
Church Of St.Nicholas
GV
I
Church. C13, C15, with C18 refacing and additions, including west porch dated 1761
west window of 1826, and south transept dated 1839. Restored in 1875.
Roughcast with stone dressings, tiled roofs, C18 dormer on north side of nave;
weatherboarded bellcote centrally on nave with louvred openings on all
faces, pyramidal tile roof and weathervane. Nave, west porch, south transept,
chancel and vestry. West porch: gabled with coped parapet and doorway with
moulded semi-circular arch, impost blocks, and keystone in square head. Nave:
west end has semi-circular arched doorway with door of probably 1875 blank
semi-circular arched window in gable above with architrave, impost blocks and
keystone. South side has 2 semi-circular arched windows to west with architraves,
impost blocks and keystones, and one window to east with 2 ogee lights under
a segmental head. North side has 2 arched windows as south, to west; to east a
C15 window with 2 cusped ogee lights under a segmental head, and an early C16
window with 3 cusped lights under a square head. South transept: C20 door to west
with moulded surround and flat hood, large semi-circular arch to south with dated
keystone, smaller but similar window to east with architrave, impost blocks and
keystone. Chancel: 2 bays, south side has two 2-light windows with cusped heads,
that to right restored early C14, that to left C19. East end has triple shafted
lancets with hood moulds, probably of 1875. Early C13 vestry and single lancet of
1875 to north. Interior: nave has old tie beams; moulded plaster decoration around
windows probably of 1875, C19 font, Cl7 octagonal pulpit; Flemish and German C16
glass, some of 1649, and Moses probably of 1835. Chancel has moulded arch of 1875
with granite columns foliated capitals and hood mould with caved stops; C13 lancet
with toothed rear arch, leading to vestry. V.C.H. Vo1.4. pp.115-116. B.O.E.Berkshire.
p.259.
Listing NGR: SU5759964271
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 39660
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 259
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924), 115-116
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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