Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II* listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Nicholas
- WRENN ID
- low-hinge-cobweb
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1963
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Nicholas, Chinnor
- OS grid reference
- SP 742 023
- Coordinates
- 51.71516, -0.92693
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II* listed building located in Chinnor, with parts dating back to the 14th century. The tower is from this period, while the chancel and nave were partly rebuilt around 1874 by architects Charles Buckeridge and J.L. Pearson. The church features a squared stone plinth, coursed stone rubble, and old plain-tile roofs. It has a four-bay nave, a two-bay chancel, and a west tower.
The entrance to the nave has a two-centre arched doorway with a moulded arch and hood mould, leading to a 19th-century plank door. There are paired lancets with flat heads on either side of the doorway, and the chancel has two-light Y-tracery windows. The east end of the church also features a Y-tracery window. The tower is supported by angle buttresses and has louvred lancet openings with flat heads on each side, topped with a saddleback roof.
Inside, the chancel has a braced collar truss roof, while the nave features a 19th-century kingpost roof. The chancel includes a carved wood reredos, a stone piscina and sedilia, and an encaustic tile floor. A 14th-century two-centred chancel arch rests on half-octagonal columns, with a piscina to the right and a 19th-century pulpit to the left. The church also houses a round stone font from the 14th century, set on a shaped plinth.
Local climate
Church of St Nicholas sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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