Church of St Nicholas
CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, BUCKINGHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1215097
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, BUCKINGHAM ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1215097
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, BUCKINGHAM 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, BUCKINGHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lillingstone Dayrell with Luffield Abbey
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 70528 39821
Details
SP 73 NW LILLINGSTONE DAYRELL BUCKINGHAM ROAD
3/63 Church of St. Nicholas
13/7/66
GV I
Parish Church. Retains Norman tower and chancel arch, otherwise mostly C13 with C19 N. aisle, organ chamber, vestry and restorations by G.E. Street 1868. Rubble stone, tiled roof. Tower of three stages with double lancets to bell-chamber. S. aisle has two- light Decorated window to left, 3-light Perpendicular window with flat hood-mould to right and 3-light window with reticulated tracery in E. wall. S. door is Early English with roll mouldings to arch on shafts with moulded caps and bases. C15 porch. N. aisle has paired lancets. Chancel has lancets, round headed to exterior and paired to E. with incised ornament in spandrels. 3-light E. window has geometric tracery. Interior: Norman arch to tower with single lancet over. Nave of three bays with double chamfered arches on octagonal piers with moulded caps and carved head corbels to W. end. Low Norman arch to chancel. N. wall of chancel has arch to organ and tomb recess under depressed pointed arch with two tracery bars resting on corbel with carved head below. S. wall has continuous hood-mould over piscina, sedilia, tomb recesses and low window to W. Arcade has shafts with nailhead ornament to moulded caps. Chancel has fine roof with wall posts, arched braces to collar, curved struts and wind-braces. Modern fittings. Monuments: elaborate table tomb with recumbent effigies of Paul and Dorothy Dayrell 1571; brasses to Richard Blakysley, rector, 1493 and to Paul and Elizabeth Dayrell 1491; wall tablets to Elizabeth Dayrell 1679 and Paul Dayrell 1690.
RCHM II pp 167-169
Listing NGR: SP7052739822
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 400126
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume Two North, (1913)
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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