New Church of St Nicholas
NEW CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197311
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- New Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- NEW CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197311
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- New Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- NEW 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:
- NEW CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Brentwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kelvedon Hatch
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 56884 98973
Details
KELVEDON HATCH
TQ59NE CHURCH ROAD 723-1/5/431 (North side) New Church of St Nicholas
II
Church. 1895. By JT Newman. Red brick, roofed with flat red tiles. Nave and chancel same width, apse in form of a bay window, projecting porch and tower over it at W end of S wall and vestry at E end. Projecting organ chamber at W end. Small transept and utility room on N side. EXTERIOR: S elevation. 4 bays of alternating buttresses and lancet windows, vestry , embattled parapet, butressed corners and 2 dated water-heads, central boarded door with window each side, deep mouldings, 4 dormer windows, each with double casements, each light 5x4 leaded panes and curved herringbone timbering in each gable. Porch and tower of 3 stages, lower 2 buttressed, ground floor has central boarded door in 2 centred arch, first stage has 3 lancets, outer ones blind, centre one glazed, upper stage timber, louvred with short, tiled, octagonal spire rising from a pyramidal roof with deep overhanging eaves. N and S faces of tower similarly detailed. N elevation, nave with 6 buttressed bays, 5 lancet windows and 4 dormers. Transept 2 butressed bays, dated water-heads, boarded door in lancet head on W side, lancet windows on N and E sides. E elevation. Projecting, barge boarded gable, Lower lancet window in each of 3 faces of apse with triple lancets above in E face. Vestry E wall has twin lancets with conjoined hood mould under embattled parapet. W elevation. W wall of nave, 3 glazed lancets with continuous hood moulds, organ chamber, gabled with 3 glazed lancets. INTERIOR: softwood roof, hammer-beam and side purlin form with king post to ridge purlin, raking struts and ogee wall braces to hammer-beams. Chancel roof similar but cusped principal rafters to corbels in place of hammer-beams. Lancet windows of nave with internal splays and segmental rear-arches. Screen, pulpit, altar rails and other fittings in wrought-iron - ogee motif, leaf and flower embellishments. Screen has central ogee headed arch with 6 narrower side bays similarly treated, embattled top with central pediment surmounted by a cross, lower continuous rail with ogee ornament and pair of central gates. Nave windows progressively replaced by memorial windows in stained glass. E windows stained glass.
Listing NGR: TQ5688498973
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373711
- 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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