Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1954. Church.
Church of St Nicholas
- WRENN ID
- old-alcove-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1954
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Nicholas, Church Lane
- OS grid reference
- TL 231 344
- Coordinates
- 51.99482, -0.20781
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Nicholas, located on Church Lane, dates from the late 11th century or early 12th century. The nave was altered and a tower was added in the early 15th century. The chancel was rebuilt around 1814 in the Perpendicular style. The church features a Welsh slate roof with a coped nave gable, and its walls are constructed from flint and ironstone rubble with clunch dressings, some of which are rendered. The buttresses have been repaired using tile and red brick. The tower consists of three stages, topped with a crenellated parapet and diagonal buttresses. The nave has 15th-century two-light windows, and there is a 15th-century doorway leading to the tower and another on the south side. The south porch, likely built around 1814, has a Gothic arched doorway with a reeded square-headed surround and corner stops. Inside, there is an 11th- to 12th-century round-arched chancel arch with plain imposts, an early 14th-century octagonal font adorned with tracery decoration, a 17th-century pulpit with a canopy, and some 15th-century benches.
Local climate
Church of St Nicholas sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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