Church Of St Nicholas

RIBBY WITH WREA WREA GREEN SD 33 SE 8/60 Church of St. Nicholas - GV II

Church, 1848-9, with steeple 1884. Sandstone rubble, blue slate roof. Nave and chancel, 3-stage tower with broach spire attached to south side; in Early English style. Four-bay nave has plate-tracery windows of 2 cusped lights with quatrefoils and trefoils alternately in the heads, west gable has similar but larger window set in moulded arch with shafts, and a small wheel window above. Tower attached to 2nd bay has porch doorway with 3 orders of moulding and a hoodmould, string courses, gableted niche with statue, louvred 3-light belfry windows, broach spire with transomed 2-light lucarnes in the cardinal sides; polygonal stair turret at north west corner, rising from eaves of nave. Chancel of 2 short bays has 2-light traceried windows with foliated-stop hoodmoulds, tall traceried east window of 3 lights with cinquefoil and trefoils in the head. Interior: arch-braced kingpost roof; carved and painted reredos.

Listing NGR: SD3976331603