Church of St Nicholas
CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1136040
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1966
- 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:
- 1136040
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1966
- 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:
- Beedon
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 48236 78125
Details
BEEDON BEEDON SU 47 NE 8/8 Church of St. Nicholas 24,11.66 I
Church. Early C13 with C19 restoration. Flint with stone dressings, part rendered on nave. Tiled roof, shingled spire. Nave, chancel and south porch. South Elevation:- nave bellcote-with louvre and broached spire to left, 2 lancets flanking gabled timber porch with wide cusped opening over south door in 2-centred chamfered arch on thin columns with moulded bases and remains of leaf capitals, mass clock on east quoin; chancel - 2 bays with buttresses, left bay 2-light window with cusped ogee heads in square headed opening to left of door with recessed moulded 2-centred arch on columns with modified Composite capitals and drip mould with carved heads at springing, single lancet to right, right bay one restored 2-light window with cusped ogee headed lights in square opening. East Elevation:- 3 lancets with oculus in gable. North Elevation:- Chancel:- 3-light-window with cusped ogee headed lights in square opening to left of 2 lancers in moulded reveals. Nave:- 2 lancets flanking blocked door with pointed head and chamfered reveals. Interior:- plastered.Chancel:- 3 bay panelled timber ceiling with moulded joists; east end of 3 window arcade with moulded stone arches on columns with leaf caps; piscina on south wall; timber screen forming vestry behind altar; chancel arch 2-centred with moulded reveals springing from short columns supported by carved head on north and corbel on south. Nave:- 3 main bays, with intermediate arched braced collars, double butt purlins and curved windbraces; timber bell frame inserted into west bay; stone tub font. V.C.H. Berkshire Vol.iv p.29. B.O.E. Berkshire p.85.
Listing NGR: SU4823178125
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 39837
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 85
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1906), 29
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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