Parish Church of St Nicholas
PARISH CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1330437
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1330437
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST 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 ST NICHOLAS, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hail Weston
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 16520 62079
Details
In the entry for HAIL WESTON CHURCH STREET Parish Church of St Nicholas This address shall be amended to read HAIL WESTON HIGH STREET
Parish Church of St. Nicholas
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HAIL WESTON CHURCH STREET TL 16 SE 3/18 PARISH CHURCH 14. 5.59 OF ST NICHOLAS II*
C13 parish church with a C14 timber-framed tower, a unique survival in the county. Both restored in the late C19 when the church was ruinous. Built of pebble-rubble and some stone with limestone and clunch dressings. Plain tiled roof, shingle cladding to tower. Nave and chancel without internal divisions, east and south walls rebuilt in C15. One C13 lancet window in north wall. South and West doorways with stop-moulded jambs and four-centred arches. Nave and chancel roof C15, of four bays with queen posts, has one original carved tie beam, and original deeply moulded cornice, and embattled wall plate and side purlins. Timber framed west tower with timber-framed bell stage, is largely undisturbed except for the first stage where new sills and external buttresses were introduced in C19 and the gable roof replaced by pyramid roof. The original weather- boarding was also replaced with shingles. South porch C19; early C16 poppy-head pews and chancel screen, restored. C13 font with octagonal bowl, late C13 piscina. R.C.H.M. (Hunts), p125 V.C.H.(Hunts) , p302 Pevsner, Buildings of England, p258 C.R.O. Huntingdon Photographic Collection
Listing NGR: TL1652062079
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 54358
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 125
Page, W, Proby, G, The Victoria History of the County of Huntingdon, (1936), 302
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough, (1968), 258
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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