Church of Saint Nicholas is a Grade I listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1961. A C15 Church.
Church of Saint Nicholas
- WRENN ID
- old-keep-lark
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1961
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of Saint Nicholas, Church Road, Tingrith
- OS grid reference
- TL 007 324
- Coordinates
- 51.98127, -0.53476
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of Saint Nicholas is a parish church located in Tingrith, dating from the 15th century and reworked in 1845-1846. It is constructed of coursed ironstone rubble with ashlar dressings. The church features a chancel, a north vestry, a nave, north and south aisles, a south porch, and a west tower, with all parapets embattled except for the north aisle.
The chancel has a four-light east window and two three-light windows on both the north and south sides, all with four-centred-arched heads. The northwest window is blocked by an organ, and there is a small pointed-arched south doorway. Small hexagonal turrets project from the northeast and southeast angles. The north vestry is a small 19th-century addition, featuring a pointed-arched door to the east and a single light to the north. The nave has a three-bay pointed-arched design similar to the chancel arch, with a clerestory that includes three three-light windows on each side, all with four-centred heads. The north aisle contains a two-light east window and two three-light north windows, all with four-centred-arched heads, along with a pointed-arched north doorway. The south aisle has similar fenestration to the north aisle. The south porch is gabled, featuring a pointed archway and three-light four-centred-arched windows on each side.
The west tower consists of three stages, with an octagonal stair turret projecting from the northeast angle and diagonal buttresses at the west angles. Each side of the bell-stage has two-light pointed-arched windows. The west elevation includes a pointed-arched doorway topped by a three-light four-centred-arched window.
Inside, the nave retains a brass memorial to Robert Hogeson, Lord of the Manor, who died in 1611. There are 17th and 18th-century monuments in the chancel, while most other fittings are from the 19th century. The nave and aisle roofs are styled after the 15th century but appear to have been reworked in the 19th century. The chancel and aisles feature mid-19th-century stained glass.
Local climate
Church of Saint Nicholas sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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