Parish Church Of St Nicolas

TL 43 NW GT & LT CHISHILL LT CHISHILL 8/15 Parish church of 22.11.67 St.Nicolas GV II* Parish church. Chancel C12, extended late C13 or early C14; tower late C14 or earlier with C16 belfry windows. Late C14 nave, originally with low-pitched parapetted roof. North porch (demolished) and south porch late C14. C19 restoration included replacement of C15 nave windows, and building of gable roof of nave and pyramidal roof to tower. Walls of flint rubble originally plastered with limestone and clunch dressings. Red plain tiled roofs with parapet gable to chancel and with remains of gable cross. South elevation: Tower of two stages, unbuttressed with chamfered string below belfry and chamfered plinth, two-light belfry window with four-centred red brick arch originally plastered, pyramidal roof with ball finial. Nave with buttresses of two stages and two C19 windows. Porch with plinth and moulded eaves, moulded two-centred arched doorway with cusped spandrels in flat moulded label with reused head stops. Traceried side lights in flat arch with solid lower panels. South doorway similar in some detail to porch entrance and to north door. Original plank door with integral hollow chamfered ribs and v - grooves, nailed to latticed back frame. Chancel of two buttressed bays with C12 or early C13 priests' doorway of one plain and one lightly chamfered orders with two-centred arched head and chamfered impost. Window to west of two trefoiled lights with arch masked by plaster, tomb recess below with C13 coffin and lid. C14 window to east of two lights with reticulated tracery in a two-centred arch, (east window C16, and to north C12 round arched window with roll moulded inner arch becoming shafted jambs with capitals and bases). Interior: Tower arch late C14 or early C15 two-centred of five chamfered and moulded orders; chancel arch coeval of three moulded orders, two outer orders chamfered with moulded caps and bases. C12 internal string course on western half of north wall and fragment on south wall. Piscina with ovolo moulded jambs, two-centred head and foiled drain, C14. Font, octagonal bowl with quatrefoil panels and truncated octagonal stem, late C14. Chancel roof, early C14, ashlared braced-collar rafters (qv Rectory Farmhouse reused.) Glass in chancel grisaille foliation C14, and fragments of tabernacle work C15 and C16, in tracery of quatrefoil of south window grisaille piece in situ. Memorial glass by Kempe and Tower c.1916 in east window. Pevsner Buildings of England p.427 RCHM Report 1956

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