Church Of St Nicholas

SWABY CHURCH LANE TF 37 NE (east side) 1/37 Church of St. Nicholas 9.3.67 II

Parish church. 1828, altered C20. Red brick in Flemish bond, painted ashlar dressings, slate roof with overhanging eaves. Nave plus western bellcote, facetted chancel, west porch. The gabled porch has plinth and pointed and stepped outer arch surrounded by a sandstone cross, angle pilasters and blank stepped side arches. The west end of the nave has pilaster buttresses and square bellcote with roundel beneath and louvred chamfered bell openings to east and west. Angle pilasters rise from sandstone corbels, the pyramidal roof has emaciate sandstone battlements. Side walls of the nave have advanced window bays. The 2 windows are of 2 lights with wooden tracery, stepped surrounds and plain bracketed cills. In the east end of the nave is a roundel. The lower facetted chancel, has a plain east window matching the rest. To either side of the chancel are lower C20 additions. Interior. Plastered and lined to resemble ashlar. The west door has a moulded and painted surround and double panelled doors. Above are blank quatrefoils in circles. The chancel arch matches with lower blank arches to either side. The chancel has blank pointed openings on side walls. Furnishings are all C19.

Listing NGR: TF3863077100