Church of St Nicholas
CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, BACK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253089
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, BACK LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253089
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, BACK LANE
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, BACK LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Derry Hill & Studley
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 96646 67736
Details
ST 96 NE CALNE WITHOUT BACK LANE, Sandy Lane
5/1 Church of St. Nicholas
II
Anglican chapel of ease, now parish church, 1892, by J.W. Hopkins of Worcester. Timber-frame with thatched gabled roof. Six A-frame trusses extending outside walls to iron shoes raised off ground on brick and connected under floor by tie-rods. Walling of boarded sandwich panels infilled with sawdust, horizontally boarded below, herringbone boarding between windows. Leaded timber windows, two 3-light each side, large mullion-and-transom end windows, 4-light to west, 3-light to east, the top-lights with Gothic fretted wood tracery. Similar tracery in angles between principal beams and outer walls. Thatched gabled south porch. Interior wholly boarded with carved wood screen and wood font. Built as a mission church for £170, £220 with fittings, the design intended as an alternative to the 'hideous and comfortless iron buildings so generally used'. (N. Pevsner, Wiltshire, 1975, 462; Information sheet in church)
Listing NGR: ST9664667736
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436216
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975), 462
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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