Parish Church of St Nicolas

Parish Church of St Nicolas, Bartholomew Street, Newbury

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1219556
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1950
List Entry Name:: Parish Church of St Nicolas
Statutory Address:: Parish Church of St Nicolas, Bartholomew Street, Newbury

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1219556
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1950
List Entry Name:: Parish Church of St Nicolas
Statutory Address 1:: Parish Church of St Nicolas, Bartholomew Street, Newbury

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:: Parish Church of St Nicolas, Bartholomew Street, Newbury

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

District:: West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Newbury
National Grid Reference:: SU 47061 67101

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 9 May 2024 to correct a typo in the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

SU 4767 SW 1/16

BARTHOLOMEW STREET (west side) Parish Church of St Nicolas

(Formerly listed as Parish Church of St Nicholas)

29.9.50

GV I

Circa 1509-1532 in Perpendicular style, built largely at the expense of the clothier John Smallwood (alias Winchcombe or 'Jack of Newbury'); extensive alterations in 1858 and 1866, five bay nave and aisles, chancel with north and south chapels, half-enclosed west tower, north and south porches and vestry of 1866. Lead roofs with battlements. Bath stone ashlar with buttresses, gargoyles and strings. Chalk elements. West tower of four stages with polygonal buttresses and embattled pinnacles. Corbel of tower with date 1532. Windows of four-six lights with panel tracery; three-light clerestory windows. West doorway with square hood mould.

Interior: Arcade piers with clustered shaft. Chancel arch and roof of 1858 by Woodyer. Perpendicular nave roof with initials of John Smallwood. Fine carved pulpit of 1607. stained glass by Handman. Brasses to John Smallwood and wife (died 1519) and Griffiths Curteys (died 1587).

Listing NGR: SU4706067101

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Sources

Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924), 148
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.