Church of St Nicholas
Church of St Nicholas, Tresco, Isles of Scilly, TR24 0QD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328849
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Nicholas, Tresco, Isles of Scilly, TR24 0QD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328849
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1992
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Nicholas, Tresco, Isles of Scilly, TR24 0QD
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:
- Church of St Nicholas, Tresco, Isles of Scilly, TR24 0QD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Isles of Scilly (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Tresco
- National Grid Reference:
- SV 89223 15417
Details
SV81NE
1358-0/1/113
TRESCO
Church of St Nicholas
GV
II
Church. 1877-79 by Thomas Algernon Dorrien-Smith as a memorial for his uncle Augustus Smith who died in 1871. Squared and coursed granite; stone-coped slate roof. Cruciform plan with south-east tower.
Three-bay nave has west rose window with central quatrefoil to gable end and chamfered lancet windows. Similar lancets to transepts and two-bay chancel, which has three lancets to east end; gabled north porch with inner and outer chamfered pointed-arched doorways with decorative hinges to doors.
Tower, of three stages, has similar doorway and lancets and chamfered four-centred and louvred belfry windows with chamfered string course and parapet; pyramidal roof.
Interior: open arch-braced roof set on stone corbels. Marble reredos, given in memory of Walter M.Smith Dorrien d.1924; decorative encaustic tile sanctuary floor; pitch-pine pews, Gothic-style chancel rail and pulpit; coloured marble font on quatrefoil base. C19 and C20 wall memorials to the Dorrien-Smith family. Commemorative plaque in the porch records the names of William Nicholls, head carpenter, and Thomas Chudleigh, head mason.
Fine stained glass windows by C E Kempe include three east lancets with St. Andrew, Crucifixion and St. Nicholas and highly-coloured west window with angels and bells. North transept window by Tower, a pupil and partner of Kempe.
Listing NGR: SV8922315417
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 62548
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Laws, P, The Buildings of Scilly, (1980), 22
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cornwall, (1951), 210
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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