Church Of St Nicholas

THISTLETON

SK 91 NW MAIN STREET (North side)

3/141 Church of St. Nicholas

14.6.54

GV II*

Church with C14 tower and rest mostly of 1879. Ashlar with Collyweston slate roof and stone coped gable. W tower, nave and chancel. W tower of 3 stages with plinth, clasping buttresses, 4 bell openings with hood moulds, corner gargoyles, battlements, and pinnacles with crockets. W window with hood mould and label stops and small W door beneath. Staircase door within. W arch to nave with double chamfer, one hollow, the other dying into curved responds. Nave with shallow curved boarded roof. 3 S windows with Curvilinear type tracery and S door. S porch of stone with gable and wooden open work. Single similar N window. Stone floor with diamond pattern of narrow black tiles. Chancel with curved apse within, polygonal without. Boarded roof of cusped section the beams producing square panels. East rose window with 2 further windows either side. In between and either side 4 terracotta statues of saints in gabled niches. Signed by M. Raggi, 1879. Also, almost certainly by him, a terracotta relief of The Entombment over the altar. Minton tiled floor and C19 stained glass overall in Church. Stone pulpit reached from chancel through doorway. Foliated gable over. Contemporary font and open carved oak pews. Outside around apse a moulded band rises over windows and a rich ball flower and foliage frieze with gargoyles. Door to N organ vestry. N wall close to rear wall of Old Rectory (q.v.) with which Church forms notable group.

Listing NGR: SK9133617976