OLD CHURCH OF SAINT NICHOLAS

OLD CHURCH OF SAINT NICHOLAS, UPHILL WAY

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1129743
Date first listed:: 19-May-1983
List Entry Name:: OLD CHURCH OF SAINT NICHOLAS
Statutory Address:: OLD CHURCH OF SAINT NICHOLAS, UPHILL WAY

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Date:: 2001-09-25
Reference:: IOE01/04961/34
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1129743
Date first listed:: 19-May-1983
List Entry Name:: OLD CHURCH OF SAINT NICHOLAS
Statutory Address 1:: OLD CHURCH OF SAINT NICHOLAS, UPHILL WAY

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:: OLD CHURCH OF SAINT NICHOLAS, UPHILL WAY

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District:: North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Weston-Super-Mare
National Grid Reference:: ST 31615 58373

Details

UPHILL WAY 1. 5121 Old Church of Saint Nicholas ST 3058-3158 12/68 II* 2. Norman church remodelled in later Middle Ages; consists of nave, chancel, and central tower. Limestone rubble, stone slab roof over chancel. Nave (unroofed): 2 Norman doorways with carving in tympani: ("Circle intersected by 4 lobed motif drawn in one line" - Pevsner). Porch rebuilt 1904. Central tower: 3 stages, clasping buttresses, Norman window on S side, parapet of pierced quatrefoils in lozenges, is mostly modern replacement of Perpendicular work. Stair turret with spirelet to NE. Chancel: 2 Norman windows on N side and blocked 2 centre arched doorway on S side. Interior: 2 Perpendicular tower arches. High landscape value, overlooking village and Axe estuary.

Listing NGR: ST3161558373

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Legacy System number:: 33251
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958)

Legal

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