Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1958. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Nicholas
- WRENN ID
- silent-string-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 July 1958
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Nicholas, Riddlesworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 982 812
- Coordinates
- 52.39298, 0.91176
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Nicholas is a 15th-century parish church located in Riddlesworth, Gasthorpe. It features flint construction with ashlar dressings. The structure includes a west tower, a nave, and a chancel. The tower is three stages high, with the west, north, and south walls still standing. It has a cusped west window and two-light belfry windows. Fragments of the north wall of the nave and the east end of the church also remain.
Local climate
Church of St 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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