Parish Church of St Nicholas
PARISH CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, RISBOROUGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1310842
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, RISBOROUGH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1310842
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, RISBOROUGH 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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, RISBOROUGH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kingsey
- National Grid Reference:
- SP7432906755
Details
SP 70 NW KINGSEY RISBOROUGH ROAD
(north side)
6/326 Parish Church of St. Nicholas
- II
Parish church. 1892-3 by J. Moir in late Perpendicular Gothic style.
Coursed rubblestone with ashlar dressings. Old tile roofs. Spire
shingled. 2 bay chancel with gabled side chapels, 3½ bay nave with
south tower/porch to south of west bay. Chancel has 5-light east
window. Chapels have 2-light window. Nave has 4-centred arched 3-light
windows, 3 to north side, 2 to south. East half-bay of nave has lean-to
addition each side,south one a porch with door, north one with 3-light
window. South 'chapel' is vestry with chimney to gable, north 'chapel'
contains organ. Weathered buttresses. Stone coped gables with kneelers
and Celtic apex crosses. West front has two 2-light windows separated
by weathered buttress. Porch/tower has 4-centred west arch with cusped
panelling above, south 3-light window. Single cusped lights to ringing
chamber. Straight headed 3-light belfry windows with stone louvres.
Tracery tops and moulded heads and jambs. Broach spire. Shallow
buttresses. Stair turret in north east angle. Interior. Chancel has
sedilia to south. 4 centred arches to 'chapels' and chancel arch.
Nave and chancel roofs have arch braced scissor trusses with tracery
spandrels. Memorial tablet to Mrs. Wykeham 1823, and Philip Wykeham
1832. Chancel east windows and nave west window stained glass by Kemp,
1901 and 1924.
Listing NGR: SP7432906755
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 43267
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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