Parish Church of St Nicholas
PARISH CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1323910
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1323910
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Nether Compton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 59834 17244
Details
NETHER COMPTON ST 5917 NETHER COMPTON VILLAGE 13/67 Parish Church of 31.7.61 St Nicholas GV I Parish Church. C13 nave, chancel and south porch. C15, north chapel and west tower added. Restored in 1885, when the north chapel was extended east, to form an organ chamber and vestry. Rubble stone walls, ashlar faced with freestone dressings. Clay-tile roofs. Chancel has C19 diagonal and square buttresses. The restored C15 east window is of two tre- foiled lights in a four-centred head. North wall has a C13 lancet window now lighting the vestry. South wall has a C15 window of two cinquefoiled lights in a square head. The C15 doorway has chamfered jambs and two-centred head. Nave¼ South wall has 2 C15 windows of 3 cinquefoiled lights in square heads, and a C19 central window. The south porch has a C13 outer archway, two-centred and of two chamfered orders, the outer continuous and the inner springing from corbel-shaftes with moulded capitals and fluted bases. West tower,C15, 3 stages with a moulded plinth embattled parapet, angle-pinnacles and gargoyles, and an embattled turret at the north-east angle. West doorway has moulded jambs and segmental-pointed arch in a square head, with trefoiled spandrels and a moulded label with returned stops. C15 west window of 3 cinquefoiled lights, in a two-centred head. The bell-chamber has in each wall, a window of two cinquefoiled lights, with a quatrefoil in a two-centred head, moulded reveals and label. The north chapel has a C15 west bay and a C19 extension to the east, built of partly re-used material. East wall of the vestry has a reset C15 window, similar to that in the south wall of the chancel. The north wall of the chapel has two C15 windows, and the west wall has one. Interior: chancel- arch is C19. Roof: of nave is C15. Barrel-form with moulded ribs forming 8 bays each of 4 panels. There are carved bosses at the intersections. Wall-plates are embattled and brattished, and have carved heads under alternate ribs. Fittings: Consecration crosses on chancel, and on external walls, RCHM. Font: octagonal bowl with moulded under edge, octagonal to square stem and chamfered base, C14. Screen, under chancel-arch, stone, of 5 bays including doorway and finished with moulded cornice, C15. Seating: C17 pews, made up with some C19 work. (RCHM, Dorset I , p 100 (1)).
Listing NGR: ST5983717248
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105609
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 100
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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