Church of St Nicholas
Church of St Nicholas, Church Road, Codsall
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1374035
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jun-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Nicholas, Church Road, Codsall
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1374035
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jun-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Nicholas, Church Road, Codsall
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 Road, Codsall
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- South Staffordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Codsall
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 86618 04051
Details
SJ 80 SE
8/123
CODSALL C.P.
CHURCH ROAD (north west side)
Church of St Nicholas
27.6.63
II*
Parish Church. C12 S. doorway; C14 tower; the rest 1846-8 by E. Banks of Wolverhampton. Ashlar; clay tile roofs with fishscale bands, Single cell chancel; five bay nave; aisles; south porch; north vestry; West Tower with diagonal buttresses.
West Tower: Early to mid C14; large west window of three lights with cusped intersecting tracery and plain hood-mould stopped with two large grotesque heads; strings at belfry level terminated on each face by grotesque heads; belfry openings of two lights with cinquefoil heads; crenellated parapet, restored with corner finials.
South Elevation: bay divisions of aisle marked by stepped buttresses; all windows of aisle and chancel are of two cinquefoil headed lights with reticulated or flowing tracery above; returned hood moulds; gabled South porch with pointed outer doorway, to a reset South doorway with round head of two orders, both with chevron ornament and a foliated hood mould, flanked by nook shafts with carved capitals; the chancel had an ogee headed door to left with ogee hand mould.
Interior: octagonal piers with C14 style capitals to pointed nave arcade of two chamfered orders; tall pointed chancel arch; open timber roofs with scissor trusses in nave and aisles.
Monument: Walter Wrottesley died 1630; recumbant effigy, five kneeling figures on sides of tomb chest. Stained glass mainly C19.
Listing NGR: SJ8661804051
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 271431
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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