Parish Church of St Nicholas
PARISH CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1159739
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1159739
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST 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.
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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ickford
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 64594 07372
Details
SP 60 NW ICKFORD CHURCH ROAD (north side)
4/299 Parish Church of St. Nicholas
21.12.67
GV I
Parish church. C12, mostly early C13. Aisles added c1230. Chancel east and north walls rebuilt, upper stage of tower C14. South porch C15, altered C16. Rubblestone with ashlar dressings. Old tile roofs, except over aisles which are leaded. 2 bay chancel, aisled 3 bay nave, south porch and saddle-back roofed west tower. Chancel bays separated by stepped buttresses. East window of 3-lights with reticulated tracery. North side has 2 lancets in deeply splayed reveals. South side has c1360 east window of 2 trefoiled ogee lights under square head, moulded jambs and label. West bay has lancet, then C13 doorway, then single light C15 window with transom and low side window. Sill and lancet arch springing string courses. Coped parapet. North aisle has east window of 2 lancet lights, C16. North wall has at east 3 arched and cusped lights and square head then narrow lancet, C12 round headed window, high up, early C13 door with chamfered jambs and round arch then 2-light window. West wall has 2-light window. South aisle has east lancet with corbel at apex, 4-light south window with hollow chamfer mullions, flat head and jambs, C17. Porch has low pitched C15 gable under C16 steeper gable: 3-light west window with flat head, 3 cusped lights heavily moulded.West wall of south aisle has quatrefoil window above lancet. One 3-light dormer at west end of nave. West Tower of 2 stages. Lower stage has C13 west lancet, upper storey has single light windows. String below bell chamber, saddleback roof. North, south and east windows of 2 trefoiled ogee lights. West window C13 of 2 trefoil lights with tympana under pointed lancet heads. Interior. Chancel has sill string to north and south walls, piscina in arched recess of south wall. Chancel arch C13, altered C15. 2 moulded orders. Cut back caps scalloped to north, stiff- leaf foliage to south. Moulded abaci, chamfered jambs. Nave arcades of 3 bays, C13, but different detail. Moulded caps on cylindrical columns, 2 chamfered orders. Tower arch of 2 chamfered orders. One capital of south arcade foliate. South doorway C13 of 2 orders, inner moulded, outer chamfered. Moulded east cap, west cap foliage. C17 outer door. C13 piscina in south aisle. C14 stoup. Chancel roof C15 with collar trusses, straight braced with ashlar pieces. One tie beam. Nave roof 4 old tie beams. Porch roof C16. Carved and moulded tie beams. Font. C13 plain circular bowl and stem, moulded base, C13. Chancel east window glass 1914. Comper glass in north aisle windows, 1918 and 1933. Monument on north side of chancel to Thomas Tipping, 1595. Corinthian order on Ionic with black marble columns and complete entablature. Between lower columns each with kneelers, Inscription at back in strapwork frame with 'Aztec' figures. Above monument shield with arms. Wall tablets to Thomas Phillips, 1704, architectural, and Elizabeth Phillips; 1735, architectural with 'curtains'. C17 pews and pulpit, the latter with canopy enriched with guilloche-ornament. Most fittings by Canon Vernon Staley, Rector 1911-33, including font cover, tester above altar, altar rails, lectern, benches and the west gallery. RCHM I. 214. MON.1.
Listing NGR: SP6459207371
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 43240
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume One South, (1912)
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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