Church of St Nicholas
Church of St Nicholas, Church Square, Shepperton, TW17 9JY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1178304
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Nicholas, Church Square, Shepperton, TW17 9JY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1178304
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Nicholas, Church Square, Shepperton, TW17 9JY
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 Square, Shepperton, TW17 9JY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Spelthorne (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 07700 66593
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11 December 2024 to reformat the text to current standards
TQ 06NE
3/16
SUNBURY-ON-THAMES, FORMER UD
Shepperton
CHURCH SQUARE
Church of St. Nicholas
11/9/51
GV
II*
Church. Rebuilt in circa 1600 on ruins of older building and employing much old material. Tower added in 1710, restored in C19 with vestry added in 1930s. Sandstone and flint chequerwork rubble in south wall. Coved ashlar eaves. Flint rubble plinths and north walls, dun coloured brick vestries. Plain tiled roofs. Tower to west end with nave and chancel to east, substantial transepts and vestry to south east.
Two stage tower, with stone and tile coping to battlements. Diagonal offset angle buttresses to lower stage on west face. Plat band between stages. One step, brick-chamfered surround to each opening in each face of upperstage with openings under round arched head. Renewed triangular-head leaded window below on west face. Studded panelled double doors in chamfered and moulded surround with label over and foliage decoration in the spandrels. Further panelled pointed head door in south side approached up a flight of external stairs with wrought iron railings. Late Perpendicular style windows to nave, one rectangular diamond-pane window on south and larger two-light, cambered-head windows to right. Buttresses to west end of nave, one two-light window to north under flat head and in chamfered surround. External stairs to C19 door on first floor of north transept providing access to gallery inside. Five-light, north transept window with hood moulding; two-light window in north side of chancel, larger three-light window over tile sill to east. Brick vestry to south side of chancel with wood-framed leaded casement fenestration. Five-light Perpendicular window to south transept. Blocked door to south side nave by west buttress, with hood mould and four-centre arch.
Interior: glazed-in lower stage with early C19 gallery, bearing the Royal Arms of 1801-1816, across the front. C19 pews and panelled piers. Ribbed and panelled vaulted roof over nave on moulded wall plates. Three-quarter round piers on octagonal pedestals and with octagonal caps and two-step, chamfered order to transepts. Manor house pew in west side of north transept served by external stair and on thin cast-iron pillars of quatrefoil section. Round capital and octagonal piers to chancel arch; crenellated wall plates with star decorated panelled roof above in chancel.
Fittings: C19 reredos with centre gable flanked by finials over carved and traceried arcades. Timber rood screen across chancel entrance of tall proportions and with double gates to centre. C19 stone font - octagonal bowl with floral boss to centre of four panel ribbing on each face, on panelled octagonal stem. Late C19 pulpit.
Monuments: early C20 marble and mosaic memorial to Lord Blythswood.
Listing NGR: TQ0770066593
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 287987
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cockburn, J S, King, H P F, McDonnell, K G T, The Victoria History of the County of Middlesex, (1962), 10-12
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971)
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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