Church of St. Nicholas
Church of St. Nicholas, Nunhide Lane, Sulham
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215063
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St. Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St. Nicholas, Nunhide Lane, Sulham
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215063
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St. Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St. Nicholas, Nunhide Lane, Sulham
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, Nunhide Lane, Sulham
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sulham
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 64506 74224
Details
SU 67 SW
4/21
SULHAM
NUNHIDE LANE (east side)
Church of St. Nicholas
14.4.67
G.V.
II
Church. Dated 1838 on porch, apse and vestry dated 1875. Lancet style. Flint with Bath stone dressings. Stone coped parapeted gable ends and corbelled eaves to slate roofs. West tower, nave, chancel, polygonal apse, north porch and south vestry.
Tower: three stages with angle buttresses, parapet and square corner pinnacles. Paired louvred lancets on each face of bellstage with quatrefoils in timber tympana. Large lancet to west on second stage with hood mould, carved stops, and blank circular panel above; small lancets to north and south with hoodmoulds and carved stops. Boarded south door.
Nave: three bays, lancets with hoodmoulds and carved stops. Two lancets with hoodmoulds and carved stops flanking tower at west end. Gabled north porch in western bay with angle buttresses, cornice and coped parapet. Three steps with low flanking walls to boarded door.
Chancel: two bays, lancets with hoodmoulds and carved stops. Three sided polygonal apse, triple stepped lancets to east with hoodmoulds and carved stops, and lancets on flanking faces.
Vestry: gabled with date in quatrefoil panel. Two-light window with quatrefoil plate tracery and returned hoodmould, lean-to to left with Caernarvon arched boarded door. Boarded door at east end with decorative gabled timber porch.
Interior: nave: three bay hammerbeam roof with double purlins and arch bracing. Tower arch to west and three arch Early English style stone chancel screen. Chancel: two bay arched braced roof, vaulted apse. Aumbry to north and piscina to south. Large arch for organ to south, flanked by two vestry doors. Fittings include; bowl font of 1733 on C19 shaft, C19 pulpit, C19 wrought iron communion rails, and C19 reredos. Wall paintings in nave and ceiling paintings in chancel and apse. Various Wilder monuments. Model of church as originally built in vestry. Tower removed in 1959.
Listing NGR: SU6450674224
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 399801
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 230-231
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1923), 430
Murrays Architectural Guide in Berkshire, (1949), 145
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 5 February 2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html
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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