Building record 0414700000 - ST NICHOLAS' CHURCH

Dimensions - Length 0025 m Width 0012
Plan Form - RECTANGULAR
Grade I. Parish church. C12, mostly early C13. Aisles added c1230. Chancel east and north walls rebuilt, upper stage of tower C14. South porch C15, altered C16. Rubblestone with ashlar dressings. Old tile roofs, except over aisles which are leaded. 2 bay chancel, aisled 3 bay nave, south porch and saddle-back roofed west tower. Chancel bays separated by stepped buttresses. East window of 3-lights with reticulated tracery. North side has 2 lancets in deeply splayed reveals. South side has c1360 east window of 2 trefoiled ogee lights under square head, moulded jambs and label. West bay has lancet, then C13 doorway, then single light C15 window with transom and low side window. Sill and lancet arch springing string courses. Coped parapet. North aisle has east window of 2 lancet lights, C16. North wall has at east 3 arched and cusped lights and square head then narrow lancet, C12 round headed window, high up, early C13 door with chamfered jambs and round arch then 2-light window. West wall has 2-light window. South aisle has east lancet with corbel at apex, 4-light south window with hollow chamfer mullions, flat head and jambs, C17. Porch has low pitched C15 gable under C16 steeper gable: 3-light west window with flat head, 3 cusped lights heavily moulded.West wall of south aisle has quatrefoil window above lancet. One 3-light dormer at west end of nave. West Tower of 2 stages. Lower stage has C13 west lancet, upper storey has single light windows. String below bell chamber, saddleback roof. North, south and east windows of 2 trefoiled ogee lights. West window C13 of 2 trefoil lights with tympana under pointed lancet heads. Interior. Chancel has sill string to north and south walls, piscina in arched recess of south wall. Chancel arch C13, altered C15. 2 moulded orders. Cut back caps scalloped to north, stiff- leaf foliage to south. Moulded abaci, chamfered jambs. Nave arcades of 3 bays, C13, but different detail. Moulded caps on cylindrical columns, 2 chamfered orders. Tower arch of 2 chamfered orders. One capital of south arcade foliate. South doorway C13 of 2 orders, inner moulded, outer chamfered. Moulded east cap, west cap foliage. C17 outer door. C13 piscina in south aisle. C14 stoup. Chancel roof C15 with collar trusses, straight braced with ashlar pieces. One tie beam. Nave roof 4 old tie beams. Porch roof C16. Carved and moulded tie beams. Font. C13 plain circular bowl and stem, moulded base, C13. Chancel east window glass 1914. Comper glass in north aisle windows, 1918 and 1933. Monument on north side of chancel to Thomas Tipping, 1595. Corinthian order on Ionic with black marble columns and complete entablature. Between lower columns each with kneelers, Inscription at back in strapwork frame with 'Aztec' figures. Above monument shield with arms. Wall tablets to Thomas Phillips, 1704, architectural, and Elizabeth Phillips; 1735, architectural with 'curtains'. C17 pews and pulpit, the latter with canopy enriched with guilloche-ornament. Most fittings by Canon Vernon Staley, Rector 1911-33, including font cover, tester above altar, altar rails, lectern, benches and the west gallery. RCHM I. 214. MON.1 (B6).
Watching brief carried out during installation of a sewer pipe in March 2010 by TVAS identified the remains of 4 previously unrecorded inhumation burials at depths of 0.4m-0.7m beneath an existing churchyard path to the south of the church. The bones were well-preserved and the presence of coffin wood and nails suiggest that they are relatively recent in date. See report for detail (B9).