Parish Church of Saint Nicholas
PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT NICHOLAS, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1311656
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1964
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of Saint Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT NICHOLAS, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1311656
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1964
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of Saint Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT NICHOLAS, HIGH STREET
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 SAINT NICHOLAS, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bedford (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wilden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 09412 55229
Details
TL 05NE WILDEN HIGH STREET
4/219 Parish Church of Saint 15.7.64 Nicholas
GV I
Parish church. C14 origins but mainly C15. Coursed limestone to tower, brown cobblestones and freestone elsewhere, with ashlar dressings. Chancel, N vestry, nave, S porch, W tower. Chancel: plain parapet and moulded plinth. 3-light E window, restored early C20. S wall has 2 3-light windows, SE one with sill carried down to form seat, and to E is C13 trefoiled piscina recess. N wall has blocked window and C19 doorway to C19 vestry. Nave: embattled parapet. N and S doorways. 2 3-light windows to both N and S walls, E of doorways. N wall has smaller 2-light window to W of door, and opposite it in S wall is 2-light C14 window. S porch: plain parapet. Outer archway renewed C19. Smail square-headed window to W and E walls. W tower: 3 stages, with diagonal buttresses, and restored embattled parapet. Pointed-arched W doorway within square head, surmounted by window similar to those in nave. Top stage has 2-light transomed window to each side. N and S sides of middle stage have small square-headed 2-light window. Interior: 1902 E window incorporates fragments of C15 glass. C15 octagonal font, partly restored C19, with shields, tracery and flower patterns carried on panels. Chancel has 1643 wall monument to Jasper Fisher, rector, and floor slabs to other rectors, Thomas Watson 1657, and Thomas Rolt 1695. C15 roofs, recently restored but retaining much original timbering, including carved bosses and brackets, those to chancel with figures of angels.
Listing NGR: TL0941255229
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 36622
- 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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