Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II listed building in the Fylde local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1986. Church.
Church of St Nicholas
- WRENN ID
- late-lime-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Fylde
- Constituency
- Fylde MP: Mr Andrew Snowden (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1986
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Nicholas, Ribby-With-Wrea
- OS grid reference
- SD 397 316
- Coordinates
- 53.77727, -2.91554
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Nicholas, built between 1848 and 1849 with a steeple added in 1884, is located in Ribby with Wrea. It is constructed of sandstone rubble and features a blue slate roof. The church is designed in the Early English style and consists of a nave and chancel, along with a three-stage tower that has a broach spire attached to the south side.
The nave has four bays and is adorned with plate-tracery windows that contain two cusped lights with alternating quatrefoils and trefoils in the heads. The west gable features a larger window set in a moulded arch with shafts, along with a small wheel window above it. The tower, which is attached to the second bay, includes a porch doorway with three orders of moulding and a hoodmould, as well as string courses and a gableted niche that houses a statue. The tower also has louvred three-light belfry windows and a broach spire with transomed two-light lucarnes on the cardinal sides. A polygonal stair turret rises from the eaves of the nave at the northwest corner.
The chancel consists of two short bays and features two-light traceried windows with foliated-stop hoodmoulds, along with a tall traceried east window of three lights that has a cinquefoil and trefoils in the head. Inside, the church has an arch-braced kingpost roof and a carved and painted reredos.
Local climate
Church of St Nicholas sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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