CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS

CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1198839
Date first listed:: 20-Dec-1960
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1198839
Date first listed:: 20-Dec-1960
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Biddestone and Slaughterford
National Grid Reference:: ST 86181 73547

Details

BIDDESTONE CHURCH STREET ST 8673 (north side) 9/16 Church of st. Nicholas 20.12.60

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Anglican Parish church, C12, C13, C14 and mid-C19. Rubble stone with stone tiled roofs and coped gables. Nave, chancel and south porch with C19 sanctuary and north vestry. Saddlestone to nave west gable, crosses to chancel and sanctuary gables and fine C13 bell-turret to nave east end; stone, cross plan with nook-shafted posts carrying a short C15 octagonal stone spire with dripmould base and moulded cap carrying C20 weathervane. Nave: west window with intersected tracery and hood, C14 restored 1935. South side, C15 cusped 2-light with quatrefoil head, C14 south porch with chamfered 2 order arch and hood over, blocked west side door. Renewed roof timbers. C12 south doorway with 2 columns with carved caps to plain arch framing stone tympanum with cross in beaded circle. Oak plank door with nailhead studs and iron hinges. C15 4-light flat headed window with damaged cusping to lights. Hoodmould with carved square stops. North side, one bead moulded 2-light window, 1730 and c1900 vestry, slate roofed with brick dressings. Chancel: south side, one C14 2-light cusped window with quatrefoil head and C12 single arched light in splayed surround. Similar C12 window to chancel north side and a blocked C13 single light. Sanctuary, C19, has 3-light east window. Small buttresses to nave and chancel east ends. Interior: Nave c1800 box pews and late C18 west gallery with fielded panels to front. C12 font, circular with band of zig-zag ornament. C14 doorway to north vestry. Stained glass of 1938 to north window and c1906 to south 4-light window. C19 wood pulpit. C19 boarding to 5 bay roof. C15 chancel arch, slightly pointed, moulded continuously. Chancel: C19 boarded roof. Sanctuary arch, C19, similar to chancel arch. Sanctuary east window 1905 by Bell of Bristol. Good series of wall plaques from c1695 to c1823 to Mountjoy family in chancel, one of 1734 signed M. Sidnell, one of 1807 signed Brewer of Box. In nave C17, C18 and early C19 plaques. (Pevsner N: Wiltshire 1975, 110-111).

Listing NGR: ST8617373544

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Legacy System number:: 317106
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975), 110-111

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.