Church Of St Nicholas

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