Church of St Nicholas
CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1035682
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1964
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1035682
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1964
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wilcot, Huish and Oare
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 14461 63735
Details
HUISH - SU 16 SW 5/21 Church of St. Nicholas 27.5.64 II
Anglican parish church. 1878-9. Banded brick, sarsen, limestone, flint and malmstone. Vitrified brick to west gable. Tiled roof of 1961. Nave with south porch, and chancel with north side vestry. Entrance porch has pitched roof and wave moulded door. Two-light nave windows with quatrefoil heads and drip mould. Three lancets with trefoiled heads form west window. Limestone bellcote corbelled above west end. Chancel also has 2-light quatrefoiled windows. Coped verges. Date stone at west end reads RE TC 1790, and graffiti on buttress dated 1631. Interior: Nave of 3 bays, open hammerbeam trusses. Wide chancel arch with continuous mouldings. Panelled barrel vault of 3 bays. Vestry open to chancel. Fittings: Font octagonal, Cl9. Pulpit oak, also C19, pierced and panelled. Oak sanctuary rail. Monuments: In chancel, tablet, 1830 to Charlotte Bleeck. In nave, churchwardens tablet of 1739 and oval tablet to Evelyn Burge, died 1954. In case, 4 fine large encaustic tiles and 2 margin tiles, C15, recovered in excavations in 1966 on north side of building. (N. Pevsner, Buildings of England, Wiltshire; W.A.M 62, 63 and 64, 1967-9)
Listing NGR: SU1446163735
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 311654
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1963)
Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine in Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, Vol. 62, (1967)
Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine in Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, Vol. 63, (1968)
Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine in Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, Vol. 64, (1969)
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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