CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II*
List Entry Number: 1302545
Date first listed: 25-Mar-1968
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
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Location
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Worcestershire
District: Malvern Hills (District Authority)
Parish: Earl's Croome
National Grid Reference: SO 87035 42025
Summary
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History
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Details
SO 84 SE EARL'S CROOME EARLS CROOME
3/52 Church of St Nicholas
25.3.68
- II*
Church, Norman with later alterations and 1832 West tower. Blue lias stone
with some red sandstone dressings and Bath stone C19 dressings. Nave and
chancel, nave walls embracing West tower. 3 stage tower of squared rubble
stone with string courses and battlements. Neo-Norman West door and 2 light
window above. 2-light pointed window to 3 sides of top stage. Nave 4 windows
to South side, 1 C15 renewed 2 light, 1 C19 2 light, crude C13 2 light window
with cusped top-light, blue lias tracery and Norman rear arch. Similar window
to North side, also 1 2-light C19 window and 2-light Dec window with quatrefoil
head. Red sandstone tracery. Each side blocked fine Norman doorway, 1 order
of columns, roll-mould and zig-zag round arch. C19 nave roof with knee braces
and collar. Fine Norman chancel arch with zig-zag moulding and abaci continued
as imposts, carved decoration, lion to South abacus. Zig-zag single shafts.
Chancel with small Norman gable light, pattern carving to outside and patterned
string course below. Deep splayed Norman reveals to windows. 2-light cusped
late C13 East window tracery. 1 round arched North window. South side 1 flat-
headed window with crude 2-light wooden tracery and 1 single early C13 light.
Plain C19 roof. Jacobean pulpit and remade C17 panelling to sanctuary and
choir stalls. East window 1864, good, and one c.1860-60 Nave South window.
Remnant of medieval wooden door to South door. Ref: Pevsner: Worcs. pp 138-9,
VCH.
Listing NGR: SO8703542025
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 152555
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1901)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing