Parish Church of St Nicholas
PARISH CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1347212
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1347212
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH GREEN
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, CHURCH GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- St. Albans (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Harpenden Town
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 13265 14427
Details
TL 1314 SW HARPENDEN CHURCH GREEN (north side) HARPENDEN
16/37 Parish Church of St Nicholas 26.7.51
II*
Parish Church. C15 W tower. Remainder of church rebuilt in polychrome early-Gothic style by W. Slater in 1862. N aisle added 1898-9 by R. Brown and Sons. E end of church reordered in 1962. The tower, which was restored in 1980, is flint rubble with stone and cement dressings. 3 stages. Large stepped angle buttresses. Octagonal stair turret at SW angle. Crenellated parapet. Lead spike. Moulded cement bands and plinth. W door has deep hollowed surround. 3-light window above with cinquefoil lights. 2-light belfry window with trefoiled lights. Hood moulds. Rest of church is rock-face stone with smooth stone dressings. Flush sandstone bands and polychrome arch heads. Machine tile roof. Simple bar tracery windows in a mid-C12 French style. Aisle windows are 2 lights with quatrefoils; transept ends 3-light; E end with 5 lights and an oculus with 4 quatrefoils. Interior has a 5-bay nave. Drum sandstone piers with moulded bases and leaf-carved capitals. Aisles have broad arches on E and W sides of transepts, each with continuous roll mouldings. Chancel has 2 bays either side, each with a drum pier. At W end of S aisle is a good C12 Purbeck marble font: octagonal with 2 shallow pointed panels on each face; 8 round supporting colonettes. Brasses: 1456 to William Anabull; 1559 to William Cressye, both near pulpit. Good C18 and early-C19 wall monuments on N and S interior walls of tower including (N wall) large monument to Godman Jenkyn (d.1746): obelisk with armorial plaque, sarcophagus base with lobe fluting; black and white marble. C18 monument above with fluted Doric pilasters and broken segmental pediment. S wall has 6 smaller wall plaques. (Pevsner (1977)).
Listing NGR: TL1326514427
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 163572
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)
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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