Church of St Nicholas
CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174104
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174104
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH LANE
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, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 23143 34446
Details
CHURCH LANE 1. 5255 Norton Church of St Nicholas TL 2334 5/3 27.5.54 II 2. Late C11 or early C12. Nave altered and tower added early C15. Chancel rebuilt circa 1814 in Perpendicular style. Welsh slate roof with coped nave gable. Walls of flint and ironstone rubble with clunch dressings, partly rendered. Buttresses repaired with tile and red brick. Tower of 3 stages with crenellated parapet and diagonal buttresses. C15 2-light windows to nave. C15 doorway to tower and on south side. South porch of probably circa 1814 with Gothic arched doorway and reeded square-headed surround with corner stops. Interior with C11-12 round-arched chancel arch with plain imposts. Early C14 octagonal font with tracery decoration. C17 pulpit with canopy. Some C15 benches. (RCHM Herts p 160; VCH Herts Vol 2, p 363.)
Listing NGR: TL2314334446
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 161847
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1908), 363
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
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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