Church of St Nicholas is a Grade I listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1959. Church.
Church of St Nicholas
- WRENN ID
- carved-obsidian-rush
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1959
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Nicholas, Hythe Road, Feltwell, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- OS grid reference
- TL 712 908
- Coordinates
- 52.48906, 0.52091
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Nicholas is a redundant parish church dating back to the 12th century, with significant rebuilding in the 13th and 15th centuries. The south aisle and south porch were added in the early 16th century. The church is constructed of flint with ashlar dressings and slate roofs.
The remains of the original 12th-century west tower collapsed in 1898, but the lower stage survives, built largely from ferruginous conglomerate. The west window of the south aisle is a 2-light window dating from a restoration in 1830. A gabled brick porch with diagonal buttresses features a 4-centred doorway with continuous double hollow and roll mouldings, with a hood mould on labels. The porch also contains blocked side windows. The south aisle and east windows have been renewed with 2-light windows of reticulated design. The clerestory employs faced flint. The main body of the church has three 2-light Perpendicular windows, each with a 4-centred arch, hood mould, and brick relieving arch. Between these windows are flushwork panels depicting a double quatrefoil, a crowned letter "S," a letter "D," a crowned letter "T," a crowned letter "D," and chequerwork. The eastern wall was rebuilt in 1862 following the demolition of the original chancel and now contains a reset 3-light Perpendicular window. The north aisle has a 2-light east window and a single 3-light window positioned beside a buttress. A north door is situated below a church wardens' plaque dated 1830. The north clerestory has three windows mirroring the south side, but without the decorative flintwork or hood moulds.
Inside the church, the south porch roof is of 3-paired moulded principals on carved arched braces, with one tier of moulded butt purlins and a ridge piece. The south arcade, dating from the 13th century, has quatrefoil piers with keels on waterholding bases and moulded capitals supporting double chamfered arches. The north arcade, of the 15th century, features lozenge section piers with chamfers on moulded bases and capitals, also supporting double chamfered arches. The original 12th-century tower arch is semi-circular, with flat responds and single order shafts with block capitals. Clerestory windows are positioned above the arches. The church's roof dates from 1898. Other features include a cinquefoiled piscina in the south aisle, and a reset polygonal shaft of the 12th century decorated with chevrons and featuring capitals of early waterleaf design, located at the east end of the north arcade.
Local climate
Church of St Nicholas sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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