Church of St Luke
Church of St Luke, Main Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1264986
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1965
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Luke
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Luke, Main Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1264986
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1965
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Luke
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Luke, Main Street
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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 Luke, Main Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Nottinghamshire
- District:
- Rushcliffe (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hickling
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 69188 29279
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 19 February 2024 to update the description and to reformat the text to current standards
SK62NE
6/70
HICKLING
MAIN STREET (east side)
Church of St Luke
1.12.65
GV
I
Church. Predominantly C14, clerestory and porch C15, chancel rebuilt 1845, tower rebuilt 1873, general restoration 1886. Thinly coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. Ashlar tower. Lead roofs. West tower, four-bay nave with lean-to north and south aisles and south porch. Three-bay chancel. Tall three-stage tower with angle buttresses, three-light west window, two-light bell-chamber openings, decorative frieze and crenellated parapet. Embattled south porch. Two two-light south aisle windows with cusped lights. Two two-light north aisle windows with geometrical tracery and a simply moulded doorway. The chancel windows are of two and three lights with square heads, Perpendicular tracery and deep square hood moulds. The chancel is also embattled. Built into the west wall of the south aisle is an early C14 coffin lid with relief carving of naturalistic foliage growing from a cross with stepped base and foiled head.
Interior: four-bay north and south arcades with double-chamfered arches on octagonal piers with moulded capitals. Nave roof has massive quadrant moulded tie-beams, and some purlins are similarly moulded. Chancel arch on round responds which are slightly filleted. Piscina, south aisle, east end. Octagonal font with plain shields and angels under the bowl. The cover is simple with a re-cut centre piece dated 1665. Small poor-box on a pedestal, carved in raised letters in sunk panels on three sides:
REME THE POORE
MBER
HF 16 85 RB
The south door has delicate C13, flowing ironwork. Bench ends with heads on the arms and in the poppy heads. A brass on the chancel floor of 1521 to Master Ralph Babington, rector.
N Pevsner. The Buildings of England, 1979.
Listing NGR: SK6918829279
On the north side of the chancel is a C16 effigy base which was discovered in the churchyard in 1983 where it remained until it was moved into the church in around 2000. It is of limestone with a tapering rectangular base with a shaped top. A raised Latin legend around the sides reads: ‘Here lies William Harrowden on whose soul may God have mercy. Amen.’ The inscription refers to William Vaux, 3rd Baron Vaux of Harrowden.
On the south side of the chancel is a mid C10 Anglo-Saxon coffin lid with much interlace, a cross and two beasts. It was dug up in the churchyard in around 1821, and stored in the church. It was relocated from the south aisle wall in around 2000.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 425592
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979)
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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