Church of St Nicholas
CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, HILL TOP
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1365188
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, HILL TOP
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1365188
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, HILL TOP
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, HILL TOP
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- North Warwickshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Baddesley Ensor
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 27042 98546
Details
BADDESLEY ENSOR HILL TOP SP29NE (South-west side) 9/16 Church of St Nicholas II
Church. 1848, Designed by Henry Clutton. Regular coursed sandstone. Slate roofs nave parapets with moulded cornices and coped gable parapets with trefoiled gabiet kneelers. Chancel, nave, south-east vestry tower and south porch. Gothic Revival Early English style. 2-bay chancel, S-bay nave. Splay plinths, moulded sill courses, and angle and other buttresses of 2 offsets throughout. Chancel has 3 stepped east lancets with hood moulds and head stops. North side has paired eastern and single western trefoiled lancets. Broad tower of 3 stages set against south side, First stage has shallow angle buttresses and small trefoiled lancet; south side has part of a Romanesque arch with zig-zag moulding re-set against it. Moulded string course. Second stage has small slit window. Large splay course. Third stage has chamfered angles and 3 bay arcade with blind outer arches with chamfered jambs, slightly larger louvred central opening with paired shafts and hood mould continued as string course. Parapet and broach spire with trefoiled lucarnes. West side has snail plank door in chamfered doorway with hood mould. North-west stair projection has octagonal top stage with blind arcading and pyramidal cap with moulded finial. Side low nave has large roof and frieze of nailhead and stylised heads. Broad buttresses and trefoiled lancets to north and south. Porch to second bay has buttresses flush with front. Moulded are with nook shafts and stilted hood mould, continued as string course. Interior is cross-vaulted with shafts. South doorway of 2 chamfered orders has Plank door with decorative hinges. West front has 2 large lancets with hood moulds and return stops, and a pointed oval window with moulded surround in the gable. Decorated crass finial. Interior is plastered. Chancel has wagon roof, East lancets have shafts with shaft rings and continuous hood mould. arch to vestry of chamfered outer and moulded inner segmental-pointed orders with colonnetes. The arch is glazed, and below is a stone screen with segmental-pointed doorway and arcade of 7 small trefoiled arches with continuous hood mould. Chancel arch of outer chamfered and inner moulded orders and large shafts, South-east corner is canted and has shouldered doorway to hall-octaginal noulded stone pulpit. Nave has arched brace roof with stone angel corbels. Vestry has stone star vault, Fittings: reredos, installed in 1882 in memory of William Stratford Dugdale, of cinquefoiled arches, incorporating a piscina, Traceried stalls. Encaustic tile chancel floor. Octagonal font with shafts. (Buildings of England: Warwickshire: p82; VCH: Warwickshire: Vol IV, p19)
Listing NGR: SP2704298546
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 309249
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1947), 19
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 82
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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