Church of St Nicholas
CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248975
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248975
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- North Barrow
- National Grid Reference:
- ST6079429384
Details
ST62NW
4/73
NORTH BARROW CP
NORTH BARROW VILLAGE
Church of St Nicholas
24.3.61
GV II
Anglican parish church. C14 origins, major restoration by H Perry of Blandford in 1860, Local grey lias stone cut and
squared, Doulting stone dressings; plain clay tiles with bands of scallop tiles between coped gables with finials. Two
cell plan of 2-bay chancel and 3-bay nave, with south porch and west tower. Chancel has plinth, angled corner
buttresses; C14 style tracery to 3-light east window, with arched head-stops; on south side west bay a pointed,
chamfered arched doorway without label. Nave has plinth, bay buttresses; 2-light windows matching chancel east window,
having arched head stop labels on south and foliage stop on north. South porch has coped south gable with finial;
plinth, angled corner buttresses; finely moulded outer pointed archway with head-stop arched label; inside a moulded
4-centre arched doorway with C19 door. Tower of 3 stages, some C14 and Cl5 work: plinth, string courses, the uppermost
with gargoyles, and battlemented parapet screening pitched clay tile roof to stair exit, being within tower proper, no
separate turrets: moulded almost semi-circular arched west doorway with early door; above a 2-light C14 traceried
window: stages 1 and 2 otherwise plain except for single cusped lancet without label to south face stage 2 to all faces
stage 3 small 2-light C14/C15 traceried windows without labels, having pierced timber baffle boards - each window has
chamfered timber central mullion, but stone tracery over. Interior mostly C19 in character, very simple. Chancel has
braced king-post roof truss and exposed rafters, a C14 piscina, a C20 large-size quarry tiled floor, and a later C14
wide chancel arch. Nave has similar roof trusses but the rafters are concealed by boarding; narrow Cl4 tower arch to
west, with, early bell- capitals to single side shafts. Fittings include C17 altar table, and fine hexigonal tulip-bowl
font with ribs to angles, on single chamfered square plinth and base, possibly C13; otherwise fittings all C19 or C20.
Memoria1s include 2 C18 Keinton slabs with incised lettering and decoration on south wall of nave. First recorded
incumbent 1312. (Pevsner, Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, 1958).
Listing NGR: ST6079429384
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 430613
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958)
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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