CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS

CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, MIDDLE LITTLETON

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1303224
Date first listed:: 30-Jul-1959
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, MIDDLE LITTLETON

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1303224
Date first listed:: 30-Jul-1959
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, MIDDLE LITTLETON

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, MIDDLE LITTLETON

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County:: Worcestershire
District:: Wychavon (District Authority)
Parish:: North and Middle Littleton
National Grid Reference:: SP 08057 46990

Details

SP 04 NE NORTH & MIDDLE LITTLETON MIDDLE LITTLETON 2/21

30.7.59 Church of St Nicholas GV II*

Parish Church medieval, heavily restored by F Preedy 1871. Blue lias stone with plain tile roofs. West tower, Nave with South porch and South East chantry chapel, North transept and chancel with vestry. Tower 3 stage, C13 below with diagonal buttresses, C15 above with paired finials and large central gargoyles. Nave C13 originally, North wall rebuilt 1871, roof 1871, South wall one C15 3-light and one C13 lancet, gabled South porch C14 originally 2-storey but opened up in C19 and South East chantry chapel c.1530 built by T Smith of North Littleton: embattled with 3-light flat-head windows, one to East, 2 to South side. Tower arch C15 doorway, reset, with crudely modelled leaf spandrels and crenellated head. North transept C14 with 2-light North window with quatrefoil head and small cusped East lancet. Circa 1871 roof and arch to nave. Small pisoina. Chancel and vestry entirely rebuilt 1871, 2 lancets and 3-light window to South, 3-light EE window to East.

Norman round font, pulpit of C15 to C16 wooden panels, C16 bench ends. Gothic reredos with 3 panels painted on metal, 1876. Some medieval floor tiles in North transept and chancel wall niche.

Listing NGR: SP0805746990

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Legacy System number:: 147613
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.