Old Church of Saint Nicholas is a Grade II* listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1983. A Medieval Church.
Old Church of Saint Nicholas
- WRENN ID
- distant-corbel-nettle
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- Weston-super-Mare MP: Dan Aldridge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1983
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Old Church of Saint Nicholas, Uphill Way, Weston-Super-Mare
- OS grid reference
- ST 316 583
- Coordinates
- 51.32033, -2.98271
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Church of Saint Nicholas is a Norman church that was remodeled in the later Middle Ages. It consists of a nave, chancel, and a central tower. The building is constructed from limestone rubble and features a stone slab roof over the chancel. The nave is currently unroofed and has two Norman doorways with carvings in the tympani, described as a "circle intersected by a four-lobed motif drawn in one line" according to Pevsner. The porch was rebuilt in 1904. The central tower has three stages with clasping buttresses, a Norman window on the south side, and a parapet decorated with pierced quatrefoils in lozenges, although much of it is a modern replacement of earlier Perpendicular work. A stair turret with a spirelet is located to the northeast. The chancel features two Norman windows on the north side and a blocked two-centre arched doorway on the south side. Inside, there are two Perpendicular tower arches. The church is set in a location of high landscape value, overlooking the village and the Axe estuary.
Local climate
Old Church of Saint Nicholas receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings