Church of St Nicholas
CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, NEWPORT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388727
- Date first listed:
- 02-Aug-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, NEWPORT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388727
- Date first listed:
- 02-Aug-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Oct-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, NEWPORT
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, NEWPORT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- Lincoln (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 97689 72452
Details
LINCOLN
SK9772SE NEWPORT
1941-1/7/300 (East side)
02/10/69 Church of St Nicholas
GV II
Parish church. 1839. By Sir GG Scott and WB Moffatt, and said
to be their first church. Restored, and baptistry added,
1879-90. Chancel and north aisle 1908, by CH Fowler.
Dressed stone and brick with ashlar dressings and slate roofs.
Early English and early Decorated styles. Pointed arched
windows.
PLAN: south-west tower with spire, nave and chancel with
clerestory under continuous roof, aisles, transepts and
vestries.
EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth, buttresses, eaves and string
course, coped gables with crosses.
Tower, 3 stages, has angle buttresses, chamfered plinth, and
string courses. To west, a double rebated doorway with
hoodmould, and above it, 2 windows with hoodmoulds. South side
has a blocked 2-light window. Second stage has a single lancet
to west and south. Bell stage has blind arcaded south and west
sides, with 2-light bell openings with shafts. North and east
sides have similar plain openings. All have hoodmoulds.
Octagonal spire has 2 tiers of lucarnes and a weather vane.
Nave west end has a sill band and a single buttress to north.
Roll moulded doorway with shafts and hoodmould. Above, 3
stepped lancets with shafts and linked hoodmould, and above, a
round window.
Clerestory, 4 bays, has pilasters and dentilled eaves. On each
side, 4 lancets.
Chancel, 2 bays, has to north a lancet to east and a side wall
stack. East end has sill band, and a stepped triple lancet
with hoodmould. South side has sill band, and 4 windows with
linked hoodmoulds.
North aisle, 5 bays, has five 2-light windows plus one in the
west end, all with Decorated tracery and hoodmoulds.
South aisle, 4 bays, has four 2-light windows with linked
hoodmoulds.
North transept has 2 lancets. South transept has 2 lancets to
east, and to south, a doorway and a stepped triple lancet, all
with hoodmoulds.
Vestry, to north-east in a blocked archway, has flat roof and
parapet and a lancet to north.
INTERIOR: nave has 5-bay arcades with octagonal piers, double
chamfered arches, and shaft imposts to west. Clerestory sill
band and panelled gabled ceiling.
Chancel, without arch, has sill band and stepped impost band.
Coped screen wall with wrought-iron railing and gates. North
side has a blocked archway. East end has a late C19 stained
glass window. South side has a piscina. Ribbed and panelled
barrel vaulted roof with billeted wall plate.
North aisle has at the west end, a baptistry with sill band
and blind arcade, 4 bays, resited from the east end. Double
chamfered half-arch at east end, and roof with arch braces.
South aisle has stained glass south-east window, 1926, and
chamfered doorway to tower at west end. East end has stilted
arch to transept. Plain lean-to roof.
North transept has double chamfered arch containing organ.
Similar south transept has traceried wooden screen and
reredos, and stained-glass south and east windows, 1889 and
1879. Both transepts have plain double purlin roofs.
FITTINGS C19, include octagonal font, octagonal oak skeleton
pulpit with sounding board, panelled oak stalls and plain
benches.
MEMORIALS include brasses, 1901 and 1928.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 499).
Listing NGR: SK9768972452
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 486188
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 499
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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