Church of St Nicholas is a Grade I listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. A Circa 1200 Church.
Church of St Nicholas
- WRENN ID
- third-finial-mint
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Test Valley
- Constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North MP: Caroline Nokes (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1960
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Nicholas, Longparish
- OS grid reference
- SU 425 439
- Coordinates
- 51.1928, -1.39218
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Nicholas is a parish church that dates back to around 1200, with additions and alterations from the 13th, 15th, and 18th centuries, and it was restored in 1857. The nave, which is from circa 1200, features four bays with aisles. The chancel, dating from the 13th century, includes a Victorian north vestry, while the west tower, which is slightly inset, is from the 15th century. There is a Victorian south porch and a north transept that houses the organ. The church has a tile roof that slopes flatter over the aisles. The walls are made of a mix of flint and stone rubble, with stone dressings, buttresses, and a plinth. The chancel has small lancet windows, while the other windows, from the restoration period, include triple lancets beneath an ogee arch in the nave and traceried windows at the east and west ends. The tower consists of three stages and features massive diagonal buttresses, with walls of chequered flint and stone. The small south porch is timber-framed. Inside, the Transitional arcade is supported by cylindrical columns, and there is a pillar piscina, an 18th-century font with an oval basin on a square baluster, and several wall monuments.
Local climate
Church of St Nicholas receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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