Church of St Nicholas
CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214866
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214866
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- 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:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kelston
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 69902 66909
Details
ST 66 NE KELSTON CHURCH ROAD (east side)
3/88 CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
1.2.56 II
G.V.
Anglican parish church. C13 and C14; heavily restored and rebuilt 1860 by
B. Ferrey. West tower, nave, north porch, south aisle, chancel and vestry.
Rubble with freestone dressings; snecked and squared rubble to nave and chancel;
slate roofs with coped raised verges. West tower is probably C13 with a
saddleback roof behind a plain parapet; 2 stages with diagonal buttresses;
moulded stringcourse with gargoyles; on the ground floor is a 2-light cusped
lancet window with a cusped hexagonal light above; single and 2-light windows to
bell stage. North porch is gabled with angle buttresses; double hollow
chamfered outer doorway (restored) under a hoodmould with square stops. Nave:
3-light C19 Perpendicular style windows. Chancel: C19 windows, lancets to the
sides and 3-light Geometrical style east window. South aisle has three 2-light
windows with cusped heads. The north door is studded with strap hinges in a
chamfered and depressed ogee-headed surround. Interior: 1860's 3 bay south
arcade in an early Gothic style; C13 tower arch is double chamfered. Font,
probably C18, ashlar, octagonal bowl with a band of quatrefoils, gadrooned base.
The pulpit, roof and other fittings are all 1860's and later. Glass: north-
east nave window has C14 borderwork and other fragments, foreign, with an oval
medallion, an angel on a blue background and the upper part of St. John the
Evangelist; south-west chancel window has a C14 French figure of St. Barbara
holding a tower; north-west chancel window has a C15 Low Countries' panel of
St. Anthony holding a staff and with a pig; tower, John the Baptist baptising
Christ with a tower in the background. Monuments. In the chancel is a
substantial fragment of a Saxon cross with interlace on two sides. Tower:
inscribed oval plaque to Marie Smith, 1678, in elaborate surround with drapery;
Griffin Smith, 1681, square plaque and further oval plaque of 1693. South
aisle: Sir Caesar Hawkins, died 1800, inscribed marble plaque with urn finial;
other inscribed square plaques of late C18 - early C19 to Hawkins and Inigo-Jones
families. Nave: Hudleston hatchment; Royal Arms, 1860; various Hudleston
monuments, mostly square inscribed plaques, particularly John died 1749, Lawson
died 1743, Charlotte died 1821 and William died 1766 with a triglyph frieze;
Lady Diones Harington, died 1674, and John Harington died 1674, both baroque
plaques with arms. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England : North Somerset and
Bristol, 1958. C. Woodforde, The Stained Glass of Somerset, 1946).
Listing NGR: ST6990266909
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 399748
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958)
Woodforde, C, Stained Glass of Somerset 1250-1830, (1946)
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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