Church of St. Nicholas is a Grade II* listed building in the Great Yarmouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1954. A Medieval Church.
Church of St. Nicholas
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- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Great Yarmouth
- Constituency
- Great Yarmouth MP: Rupert Lowe (RB)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1954
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St. Nicholas, Church Walk, Bradwell, NR31 8QQ
- OS grid reference
- TG 503 038
- Coordinates
- 52.57488, 1.69287
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Nicholas is a parish church with a 12th-century west tower. The nave, aisles, and chancel date to the 14th century, and the church was extensively restored in 1875, with a porch rebuilt in 1889 and further restoration in 1907. The building is constructed of quaternary and quarry flint and chert with Lincolnshire Limestone ashlar dressings and some brick. The nave and chancel have plain tile roofs, while the aisles have slate roofs.
The four-stage circular tower has a cusped lancet window on its west side and a lancet to the second stage. Brick lancets are found in the ringing chamber, and there are louvred lights to the belfry. A plain parapet tops the tower. The aisle west walls are pierced by traceried roundels, with stepped west aisle buttresses and side buttresses elsewhere. A gabled south porch provides access, and a north doorway is present. There are two two-light, restored, 14th-century windows on the north side, along with corresponding windows on the south side and a three-light east window of similar design. The clerestory features three encircled quatrefoils, and there is an eastern gable window to the nave. The south chancel windows are two two-light reticulated designs, with the eastern one shortened. A priests' door is present, and diagonal eastern buttresses frame a four-light reticulated and sub-reticulated east window. A 19th-century vestry is attached to the north chancel, necessitating the removal of a buttress.
Inside, a three-bay arcade features four-lobed piers supporting double chamfered arches. There is a double chamfered tower arch and a double hollow chamfered chancel arch. The clerestory windows are set behind square splays, and the nave roof has been renewed with arched braces on wall posts dropping to corbels. A 15th-century octagonal font features lions crouching against the stem and angels under the bowl. The bowl’s panels contain symbols of the four Evangelists and four further angels. Trefoiled piscinas are located at the east end of each aisle. The chancel roof dates to 1875. The good 17th-century altar rails are supported by thick irontwist balusters, topped with a rail carved with a repeating frieze of griffins and cherubs riding sea dragons. Cusped sedilia and a piscina are also present. A wall monument to William Vesey, dated 1644, features free-standing painted figures of Vesey standing behind his two wives, who kneel at prayer. A son kneels at Vesey's right, while a predella panel contains relief figures of four daughters and one reclining son. Plain plaster pilasters frame the entire composition.
Local climate
Church of St. Nicholas receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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