Church of St Nicholas

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TQ 06NE 3/16

SUNBURY-ON-THAMES, FORMER UD Shepperton CHURCH SQUARE Church of St. Nicholas

11/9/51

GV II* Church. Rebuilt in circa 1600 on ruins of older building and employing much old material. Tower added in 1710, restored in C19 with vestry added in 1930s. Sandstone and flint chequerwork rubble in south wall. Coved ashlar eaves. Flint rubble plinths and north walls, dun coloured brick vestries. Plain tiled roofs. Tower to west end with nave and chancel to east, substantial transepts and vestry to south east.

Two stage tower, with stone and tile coping to battlements. Diagonal offset angle buttresses to lower stage on west face. Plat band between stages. One step, brick-chamfered surround to each opening in each face of upperstage with openings under round arched head. Renewed triangular-head leaded window below on west face. Studded panelled double doors in chamfered and moulded surround with label over and foliage decoration in the spandrels. Further panelled pointed head door in south side approached up a flight of external stairs with wrought iron railings. Late Perpendicular style windows to nave, one rectangular diamond-pane window on south and larger two-light, cambered-head windows to right. Buttresses to west end of nave, one two-light window to north under flat head and in chamfered surround. External stairs to C19 door on first floor of north transept providing access to gallery inside. Five-light, north transept window with hood moulding; two-light window in north side of chancel, larger three-light window over tile sill to east. Brick vestry to south side of chancel with wood-framed leaded casement fenestration. Five-light Perpendicular window to south transept. Blocked door to south side nave by west buttress, with hood mould and four-centre arch.

Interior: glazed-in lower stage with early C19 gallery, bearing the Royal Arms of 1801-1816, across the front. C19 pews and panelled piers. Ribbed and panelled vaulted roof over nave on moulded wall plates. Three-quarter round piers on octagonal pedestals and with octagonal caps and two-step, chamfered order to transepts. Manor house pew in west side of north transept served by external stair and on thin cast-iron pillars of quatrefoil section. Round capital and octagonal piers to chancel arch; crenellated wall plates with star decorated panelled roof above in chancel.

Fittings: C19 reredos with centre gable flanked by finials over carved and traceried arcades. Timber rood screen across chancel entrance of tall proportions and with double gates to centre. C19 stone font - octagonal bowl with floral boss to centre of four panel ribbing on each face, on panelled octagonal stem. Late C19 pulpit.

Monuments: early C20 marble and mosaic memorial to Lord Blythswood.

Listing NGR: TQ0770066593