Church of Saint Nicholas
CHURCH OF SAINT NICHOLAS, HORKSTOW ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1288277
- Date first listed:
- 06-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF SAINT NICHOLAS, HORKSTOW ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1288277
- Date first listed:
- 06-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF SAINT NICHOLAS, HORKSTOW 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 SAINT NICHOLAS, HORKSTOW ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- South Ferriby
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 98845 20838
Details
SE 92 SE SOUTH FERRIBY HORKSTOW ROAD (east side),
2/68 Church of Saint Nicholas
6.11.67 GV II *
Parish church. C13 or earlier nave with C14-C15 windows, rebuilding of 1578-80, including chancel. Early C19 rebuilding and top stage to tower, lancets to nave; restorations of 1889 by C H Fowler of Durham included new chancel, re-roofing, re-flooring. Red brick tower with ashlar dressings; nave and porch of limestone ashlar, coursed rubble and brick; brick and ashlar vestry; chancel of brick with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs. Steep hillside position. 3-bay nave re-aligned north-south in 1889, with north- east tower and adjoining east vestry (former chancel), west porch and single-bay south chancel. Nave: C19 buttresses to north; three C19 west lancets with hoodmoulds, incorporating original masonry; re-set four-centred arch east window with Perpendicular tracery; pointed 3-light north window with Perpendicular tracery, re-set in C19 above blocked door, flanked by lancets similar to those on west (one with re-used medieval masonry); cornice and coped parapet. Vestry (outshut in angle of tower and nave) has re-set segmental-pointed 2-light cinquefoiled east window with hoodmould, C19 pointed 2-light window and blocked square-headed opening to south. 2- stage tower: plinth, diagonal buttress to east. 1st stage has pointed chamfered west door with re-set hoodmould and crude headstops, east slit window, plain string course. Second has 2-light square-headed ashlar openings to north and south, latter blocked. Pointed belfry openings with brick band and low stone-coped embattled parapet with plain angle pinnacles. porch: quoins to lower section, brick above; re-set C14 pointed double- chamfered outer arch with hoodmould and headstops. Reset Cll tympanum above, with relief carving of bishop with staff, flanked by crosses in roundels; pointed hollow-chamfered inner arch. Interior restored pointed hollow-chamfered former chancel arch to east with octagonal responds and plain moulded capitals and bases. C19 pointed double-chamfered chancel arch. C19 font and fittings. N Pevsner and J Harris, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1978, 368-9; Drawing by C Nattes, 1796, Banks Collection, Lincoln City Library.
Listing NGR: SE9884520838
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 165868
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 368-369
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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