Church of St Nicholas
Church of St Nicholas, Church Lane
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1345049
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Nicholas, Church Lane
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1345049
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Nicholas, Church Lane
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, Church Lane
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- West Pennard
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 55219 38263
Details
ST53NE
7/204
WEST PENNARD CP
CHURCH LANE (North side)
Church of St Nicholas
22.11.66
GV
I
Anglican Parish Church. Predominantly C15, C19 restoration. Coursed and squared rubble and dressed stone, lead sheeting roofs, coped verges with cruciform finials. Nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, south porch, chancel, three stage west tower; Perpendicular.
Tower with angle buttresses, small two-light bell chamber windows, embattled parapet with blind arcading, corner pinnacles, squat lead-covered spire; gabled niches to west wall, door with adjacent stoup; two weathered bands with the figures of angels, four-light window; stair turret.
The nave with a parapet pierced by quatrefoils, pinnacles, four-bay clerestory, three-light windows; parapet continues over a lofty porch, foiled niche to gable face. North aisle of four bays, plain parapet with pinnacles, three-light windows, one incorporating a door. Two-bay chancel, parapet similar to the nave, three-light windows to north and south, five-light east window. n the angle between the nave and south aisle a stair-turret to a former rood loft. Shafted south door opening.
Plastered interior on tile floors; panelled chancel roof on angel corbels; ceiled wagon roof to nave; ribs and bosses, again angel corbels; lean-to roofs to north and south aisles, panelled to north on angel corbels of C19, to south on early corbels. North and south aisle arcades of four bays each, with an unusual and narrow additional bay to west; piers of four-hollows section, trumpet capitals except that adjacent to tower arch on north with additional casement moulding set over. Perpendicular chancel and tower arches, the latter very elaborate with a panelled intrados. South aisle with a squint, adjacent the remains of C15 pews re-used as panelling. Restored Perpendicular rood screen. Chancel with an aumbry and a piscina the former with an ogee head.
Fittings predominantly C19 including pews and choir stalls; C19 brass gates to screen. Font and pulpit in a Perpendicular style. Royal arms. North aisle floor with C17 and C18 tablets. Much C19 stained glass, some fragments of medieval glass to north aisle window.
Listing NGR: ST5522138255
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 267677
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958)
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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