Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II* listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Nicholas
- WRENN ID
- dusk-eave-bittern
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1960
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Nicholas, Biddestone & Slaughterford
- OS grid reference
- ST 839 739
- Coordinates
- 51.46468, -2.23227
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Nicholas is an Anglican parish church located in Biddestone Slaughterford. It dates from the 15th century, with significant rebuilding occurring in 1823 and further alterations in 1883. The church is constructed of ashlar stone and features stone tiled roofs with coped gables and saddlestones.
The building includes a small two-stage tower from the 15th century, which has a three-sided stair turret that rises only to the bell stage. The west window is designed in the renewed Perpendicular style and includes a hoodmould, while the bell stage has a dripmould and two-light square-headed cusped openings on each face, adorned with pierced stone panelling. There are blank panels beneath the west and north side openings, and an upper dripmould runs beneath the embattled parapet, which is topped with corner pinnacles.
The nave, chancel, and south porch were rebuilt in 1823 by G. Forder of Winchester, featuring hollow eaves moulding. The north side of the nave has two windows, while the south side has one window and an embattled porch. The chancel has windowless sides and an east window. All windows were filled with Perpendicular style tracery in 1883, complete with hoodmoulds above.
Inside, the church has a plain interior with plastered walls and roofs, a chamfered chancel arch, and later 19th-century fittings. An inscription notes the rebuilding in 1823 after the church had been disused for two centuries.
Local climate
Church of St Nicholas receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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