Church of Saint Nicholas
CHURCH OF SAINT NICHOLAS, RECTORY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1176923
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1948
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF SAINT NICHOLAS, RECTORY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1176923
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1948
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF SAINT NICHOLAS, RECTORY LANE
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 SAINT NICHOLAS, RECTORY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Stevenage (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 24074 26207
Details
TL 22 NW RECTORY LANE (North Side) ------------ 4/3 Church of Saint Nicholas GV 18.2.48. A
C12; circa 1125, West tower nave. Aisles added C13, circa 1230, Aisles widened and C12 chancel rebuilt circa 1330. C15 nave clerestory, nave and chancel roofs aisle arcades rebuilt on existing columns, towers and angle buttresses, spire (lead renewed 1899). North east vestry South transept and south porch 1841. south aisle enlarged 1912-14. Early C13 font, late C14 or early C15 choir stalls with misericords, restored C15 roof screen, finely carved with foliated pinnacles, cusped ogee arches, Piscina and pedillia. Late C13 stone effigy of lady and 2 attendants. Carved marble wall monument to Charles Gibbon, 1771. Well designed black and white marble Turner wall monument, 1844.
The Church of Saint Nicholas Moonhill and Dominic Cottage form a group.
Listing NGR: TL2407426207
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 158109
- 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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