Former Parish Church Of St Nicholas, With Day Centre

STROOD HIGH STREET TQ 7369 SE 6/277 Former Parish Church of St Nicholas, with Day Centre 24.10.50 II Former parish church, now partly a day centre and partly a chapel. W tower C14 much renewed, body of church 1812 by Robert Smirke. Late-C19 and late-C20 additions to N, the latter for offices to day centre. Coursed rubble ragstone, Welsh slate roof, tower with flint and ragstone banding. The interior has been divided, but the 3 E bays of the nave still used as a chapel. W tower, undivided nave, shallow sanctuary, S porch. Tower: no buttresses; the round-headed W doorway and blocked window above do not look Norman. The flint and ragstone banding decoration is normally taken to be C14. 3 stages and battlements; quoining. Triple lancet belfry openings. Smirke's nave, 5 bays, round-headed 2-light windows with transoms; renewed stone parapet; shallow pedimented sanctuary with 4 round-headed lancets and a roundel contained within a superordinate arch; very wide angle pilaster strips. S porch, also pedimented, partly glazed doors and fanlight with glazing bars. 2 late C20 glazed doors punched into nave (S wall, to W) to serve day centre. Interior: Perpendicular tower arch. Sanctuary ceiling and arch with Edwardian paintings of angels on decorative background, oil on plaster. Earlier, Victorian, stained glass to E and side windows.

Listing NGR: TQ7354869290