CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS

CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, RISBOROUGH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1311260
Date first listed:: 21-Jun-1955
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, RISBOROUGH ROAD

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Date:: 2001-06-25
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1311260
Date first listed:: 21-Jun-1955
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, RISBOROUGH ROAD

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, RISBOROUGH ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Great and Little Kimble cum Marsh
National Grid Reference:: SP 82547 05966

Details

SP 80 NW GREAT AND LITTLE KIMBLE RISBOROUGH ROAD

2/66 Church of St Nicholas

21.6.55

- I

Parish Church. C13 and C14, very much restored by J. P. Seddon 1876 when most exterior stonework was renewed and chancel aisles rebuilt. Flint with ashlar dressings, lead roofs to nave and nave aisles, tiled roofs to chancel and chancel aisles. W. Tower, nave, aisles, C19 S.porch, and aisled chancel. C14 W. tower of 3 stages with diagonal buttresses, carved head corbel table, chequered battlemented parapet, and 2-light traceried openings to bellchamber. W.side has moulded doorway, 2-light traceried window and cusped single light above. Nave has similar parapet, C19 carved head gargoyles, and 3-bay clerestory with cusped windows, single light to N., 2-light to S. Aisles with chequered moulded parapets, the S.aisle with flat-headed.2-light traceried windows, the N.aisle with paired cusped lights. Chamfered N.door; double chamfered S.door in porch with cusped ogee light over similar arch. Chancel aisles have 2 bays of grouped lancets, door to S, and E. lancets with carved hoodmould stops. 3-light traceried E.window with carved head hoodmould stops. Interior: triple chamfered arch to tower. C13 4-bay nave arcade of double chamfered arches with moulded broach stops on octagonal piers with moulded capitals. Original stone roof corbels but nave roof restored 1929. Chancel arch with 2 moulded orders on piers with attached shafts amd moulded capitals. Chancel has 2 bay arcades to aisles with Cl9 double chamfered arches, the central piers with clustered shafts. E. Window hasdlaft to each jamb. Fittings: very fine C12 "Aylesbury" font with fluted bowl, carved foliage frieze and scalloped base; medieval chest; medieval tiles re-set in wall of N. chancel aisle (now vestry and organ chamber); C17 altar table, now in S. aisle; 2 C17 chairs with incised decoration; E. window with stained glass dated 1844, by Sir R. F. Russell, It was at a meeting in this church that John Hampden led the refusal to pay ship money. Highly graded for font.

RCHM I p. 165-166 Mon. 4.

Listing NGR: SP8254805971

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Legacy System number:: 46336
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume One South, (1912)

Legal

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