Church Of St Nicholas is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1955. Church.
Church Of St Nicholas
- WRENN ID
- stony-flagstone-lark
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1955
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Nicholas is a parish church with origins likely dating back to the 12th century. The north aisle was added in the 14th century, while the nave and tower were constructed in the 15th century, with some work from the 16th century. The church underwent significant restoration and rebuilding in 1862. It is built of rubble, chequered rubble, and flint, with ashlar dressings, and features tiled roofs with stone gable copings.
The church's layout includes a nave, chancel, north aisle, northwest tower, and south porch. The tower is three stages high, with a chamfered plinth, moulded strings, and a plain parapet with corner finials. It has a two-light, pointed west window with a string course that is carried as a label, while the remaining windows are cinquefoiled single lights with returned labels and square set buttresses. The main church windows are from the 15th century, featuring two and five lights under square and pointed heads with labels, or are 19th-century copies. The north aisle has a pointed, chamfered doorway with a timber hood, and the south porch features a pointed hollow chamfered arch and a pointed chamfered doorway.
Inside, there is a two-bay pointed, chamfered arcade on square piers with plain imposts. The chancel arch, dating from the 19th century, is pointed and chamfered, with semi-octagonal responds and capitals adorned with carved foliage. The tower arch consists of two chamfered orders that die into responds. The nave has a three-bay, 19th-century arch-braced collar roof, while the chancel features a six-sided beamed roof and the aisle has a waggon roof. Various 18th and 19th-century monuments are present, including a series of eight heraldic slabs dedicated to the Hussey family, a reset 15th-century niche head in the aisle, a 19th-century octagonal stone font with quatrefoil panels, a 19th/20th-century timber pulpit, and 19th-century glass.
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