Church of St Nicholas
CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1303221
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1303221
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
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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 NICHOLAS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Standish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 80074 08415
Details
STANDISH STANDISH VILLAGE SO 80 NW 7/248 Church of St. Nicholas 10.1.55 GV I Anglican parish church. Early C14, restored c1867-9 by J.P. St Aubyn. Coursed dressed stone on chamfered plinth, stone slate roof with coped verges and cross finials. West tower, aisleless nave with north and south porches, chancel with C20 octagonal vestry to south. Narrow tower with stepped diagonal buttresses up to first string course above level of nave roof, single trefoil belfry lights on upper stage and tall spire with roll mouldings to edges, 4 gablets at base, weathercock. Narrow slit stair lights to each face. Simple north and south porches with stepped diagonal buttresses. North porch has double chamfered outer pointed arch, stone seats and single chamfered inner arch. Nave of 3 bays, chancel of 2, all windows 2-light Decorated ogee trefoils with quatrefoil over, 5-light east window with reticulated intersecting tracery. South wall has projection marking rood stair. Interior: plaster removed in C19 restoration and chancel re- roofed. Nave roof panelled with 180 carved wooden bosses, and with 2 moulded tie beams with plain crown posts. Rood loft stair opening on south wall, and small depressed ogee piscina opposite on north wall. Very large chamfered chancel arch. Box pews of 1764 by Anthony Keck, slightly lowered in C19 restoration. Painted stone classical wall monument on south wall of nave to Sir Henry Winston, died 1609, ancestor of Sir Winston Churchill. (David Verey, Buildings of England - Gloucestershire: the Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1980; VCH, Gloucestershire, Vol X 1972)
Listing NGR: SO8007908416
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 132507
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1972)
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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