New Church Of St Nicholas

KELVEDON HATCH

TQ59NE CHURCH ROAD 723-1/5/431 (North side) New Church of St Nicholas

II

Church. 1895. By JT Newman. Red brick, roofed with flat red tiles. Nave and chancel same width, apse in form of a bay window, projecting porch and tower over it at W end of S wall and vestry at E end. Projecting organ chamber at W end. Small transept and utility room on N side. EXTERIOR: S elevation. 4 bays of alternating buttresses and lancet windows, vestry , embattled parapet, butressed corners and 2 dated water-heads, central boarded door with window each side, deep mouldings, 4 dormer windows, each with double casements, each light 5x4 leaded panes and curved herringbone timbering in each gable. Porch and tower of 3 stages, lower 2 buttressed, ground floor has central boarded door in 2 centred arch, first stage has 3 lancets, outer ones blind, centre one glazed, upper stage timber, louvred with short, tiled, octagonal spire rising from a pyramidal roof with deep overhanging eaves. N and S faces of tower similarly detailed. N elevation, nave with 6 buttressed bays, 5 lancet windows and 4 dormers. Transept 2 butressed bays, dated water-heads, boarded door in lancet head on W side, lancet windows on N and E sides. E elevation. Projecting, barge boarded gable, Lower lancet window in each of 3 faces of apse with triple lancets above in E face. Vestry E wall has twin lancets with conjoined hood mould under embattled parapet. W elevation. W wall of nave, 3 glazed lancets with continuous hood moulds, organ chamber, gabled with 3 glazed lancets. INTERIOR: softwood roof, hammer-beam and side purlin form with king post to ridge purlin, raking struts and ogee wall braces to hammer-beams. Chancel roof similar but cusped principal rafters to corbels in place of hammer-beams. Lancet windows of nave with internal splays and segmental rear-arches. Screen, pulpit, altar rails and other fittings in wrought-iron - ogee motif, leaf and flower embellishments. Screen has central ogee headed arch with 6 narrower side bays similarly treated, embattled top with central pediment surmounted by a cross, lower continuous rail with ogee ornament and pair of central gates. Nave windows progressively replaced by memorial windows in stained glass. E windows stained glass.

Listing NGR: TQ5688498973