Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Nicholas
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- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1985
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Nicholas, Chickerell
- OS grid reference
- SY 651 825
- Coordinates
- 50.64147, -2.49444
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Nicholas is a former parish church that now serves as a chapel. It dates from the 15th century or earlier and underwent significant reconstruction in 1655 following fire damage. The north wall of the nave was rebuilt in the 20th century. The building features rubble-stone walls and dressings, with slate and stone slate roofs.
The church comprises a chancel, nave, and south porch. The chancel has a late 19th-century east window with two lights. Its south wall originally had a two-light window from the 17th century, which has been altered to a single-light window with a square head and label after the mullion was removed. In the nave, the north wall has been rebuilt and includes a mid-17th-century two-light window, while the north doorway, possibly of medieval origin, has been reset. The south wall features two 17th-century stone-mullioned windows, each with two square-headed lights, moulded labels, and significant restoration. The south doorway, dating from the 17th century, has chamfered jambs, a segmented head, and a triangular rere-arch. The south porch's east wall has been rebuilt since the 17th century, and its entrance arch has chamfered jambs and a segmental head, dated 1655. The west wall of the porch includes a window from around 1500, which has two cinquefoiled lights and sunk spandrels within a square head, complete with a moulded label featuring square-return stops with foliated centres. The bellcote, dating from the 17th century, has two plain segmental-headed openings beneath a gable, and the roofs are from the late 19th century.
Inside, the chancel arch, dating from the 1655 reconstruction, has been widened to nearly the full width of the nave and is now elliptical in form with two orders. It features a keystone inscribed with the initials IP LW GC and extends into a shaped pendant. The outer hollow-chamfered order is continuous, while the chamfered inner order springs from semi-octagonal responds with moulded capitals. The medieval font is octagonal, with a plain stone bowl and a chamfered under edge, set on a stop-chamfered square pedestal and round base.
Local climate
Church of St Nicholas receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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