Church of St Nicholas
CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1182200
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1958
- 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:
- 1182200
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1958
- 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:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Fyfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 14843 68693
Details
SU 16 NW FYFIELD - 9/33 Church of St. Nicholas 27.2.58 II* Anglican parish church, C13, C15 and restored 1849. Flint, with interspersed limestone. Limestone ashlar west tower. Lead roofs to nave, aisle and chancel tiled. Nave with mid C19 north aisle, south porch and west tower. Simple chancel. Open timber gabled porch on stone low walls. Two light nave windows with quatrefoil heads. Lancets to chancel, probably a rebuild of an original early C13 chancel with corbel table. South priest's door. West tower of C15, of 2 stages with angle buttresses and 3-light west window over square headed door. Two light bell openings. Crenellated parapet with pinnacles. Chancel has heavy pilaster buttresses with pyramidal tops. Interior: Nave has north arcade of 2 bays, double chamfered arches on an octagonal column, probably a replacement of C15 original. C15 roof of 4 bays with shallow pitched tie beams trusses infilled with swirling mouchettes, carrying moulded purlins and ridge. Tower arch with square imposts and tall arch, the intrados panelled. Nineteenth century chancel arch leading to a 2-bay chancel, C13 but much restored in C19. Shafts with water-holding mouldings to bases and stiff-leaf capitals in east corners, also a C13 capital built in as shelf. Pretty internal columned rere- arches to triple east lancets. East wall has moulded tiling below string. Fittings: All C19, the joinery boldly moulded with some carving. Font: limestone, C12 form with narrow intersecting arches on bowl. Pulpit has trefoiled panels with relief Christ and saints. Two sided reader's desk, and sanctuary rail. C19 screen to tower has C17 Flemish (?) panels with the Annunciation, Nativity, the Bearing of the Cross, and the Betrayal/Denial. Monuments: In nave, a wall tablet, late C18. Various marbles. Triangular top with urn, arms on apron lost. To James Shipton, died 1793, wife and daughter added later. Under tower, 3 wall tablets. South wall, early C18, various marbles. Panel with flanking pilasters, cornice with painted arms. To Edmund and Ann Fitz James, died 1716. North wall: C18 white marble on grey, panel with cornice and apron, to Nicholas Dymore, died 1804, and another, similar, not identified.
Listing NGR: SU1484368693
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 311285
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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