Church Of St Nicholas

HUISH - SU 16 SW 5/21 Church of St. Nicholas 27.5.64 II

Anglican parish church. 1878-9. Banded brick, sarsen, limestone, flint and malmstone. Vitrified brick to west gable. Tiled roof of 1961. Nave with south porch, and chancel with north side vestry. Entrance porch has pitched roof and wave moulded door. Two-light nave windows with quatrefoil heads and drip mould. Three lancets with trefoiled heads form west window. Limestone bellcote corbelled above west end. Chancel also has 2-light quatrefoiled windows. Coped verges. Date stone at west end reads RE TC 1790, and graffiti on buttress dated 1631. Interior: Nave of 3 bays, open hammerbeam trusses. Wide chancel arch with continuous mouldings. Panelled barrel vault of 3 bays. Vestry open to chancel. Fittings: Font octagonal, Cl9. Pulpit oak, also C19, pierced and panelled. Oak sanctuary rail. Monuments: In chancel, tablet, 1830 to Charlotte Bleeck. In nave, churchwardens tablet of 1739 and oval tablet to Evelyn Burge, died 1954. In case, 4 fine large encaustic tiles and 2 margin tiles, C15, recovered in excavations in 1966 on north side of building. (N. Pevsner, Buildings of England, Wiltshire; W.A.M 62, 63 and 64, 1967-9)

Listing NGR: SU1446163735