Church of St Nicholas
CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1162203
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1162203
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1959
- 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.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Exning
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 62325 68098
Details
TL 66 NW FORDHAM LANDWADE
5/126 Church of St 19.8.59 Nicholas
II*
Church of St Nicholas. Built c.1445 for Sir Walter Cotton. Cruciform plan and west tower. Some re-used Barnack stone and limestone dressings, flint and pebble rubble originally plastered. Interior details in clunch. Welsh slate roofs; plain tile pyramidal tower roof and pent roof to tower turret. Two massive gault brick buttresses, mid C19, to west elevation of tower. Building otherwise without buttresses excepting the porch and west end with angle buttresses. Continuous moulded plinth band. Coped parapet gables to roofs. Tower of two stages with embattled parapet and round arched belfry windows rebuilt in west elevation. Windows with three cinquefoil lights and quartrefoils with labels in east window and north transept east window, other windows of two-lights. Two C15 doors; doorway in north wall with cinquefoil stoup. Interior transept crossings with two bay arcades giving entry from chancel and nave to memorial chapels. Nave and chancel roof of six bays, with plastered ceiling between main arch braced trusses supported on original carved corbels. Rood screen, mid C15 with ogee arches. Benches also C15 with carved poppy heads and rosettes. Some re-used panelling at west end of nave. Fragments of C15 stained glass. Font possibly C18 simple bowl on shafted pedastal. Monuments, three tomb chests in chancel, weathered polished limestone, two wall monuments, recessed with brass indented plaques. North trancept monument to Sir John Cotton d.1593, tomb chest with two recumbant figures and open strapwork ornament to canopy. South transept monuments, similar, of marble with recumbant figures on tomb chests with classical details to canopies, to Sir John Cotton d.1689 and to Sir John Cotton and his wife d.1620. Wall monument to Sir John Cotton d.1712 of white marble with two putti by Thomas Aday. Memorial stained glass windows C15.
Pevsner. Buildings of England, p.421 Palmer, W.M. Inscriptions and Coats of Arms of Cambridgeshire 1932. W. Cole. MS. C.R.O. Tretfall, J.B. A Coat of Arms at Landwode. The Conduit. No. 7, 1983.
Listing NGR: TL6232568098
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 49031
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Palmer, W M, Inscriptions and Coats of Arms from Cambridgeshire, (1932)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 421
Tretfall, J B, The Conduit in A Coat Of Arms At Landwade, Vol. 7, (1983)
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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