Church Of St Nicholas

IDMISTON WINTERSLOW ROAD, Porton SU 13 NE 3/90 Church of St Nicholas 18.2.58 II

Anglican parish church. 1876-7, by J.L. Pearson. Flint with brick dressings. Tiled roofs. Nave, chancel with vestry at right angles, south porch. Nave has 2-light Decorated style windows, 3-light to east end of chancel. Short 3-light gable window to vestry. Mid wall string, stepping up under east and west windows. Gable crosses. Bellcote with double openings and crocketed gable over west end of nave. Porch has open trussed rafter roof. Boarded inner door. Interior: nave of 3 bays, with tie beams and facetted barrel vault. Walls rendered, with bowtell string at base of window embrasures Wide chancel arch. Chancel has panelled vault. Piscina on north wall, sedilia with nook shafts on south. Oak reredos. Fittings: font. C15 and reset. Octagonal bowl with trefoil headed panels, and varied fleurons below. Pulpit of oak on stone base. Sanctuary rail an oak pole on iron supports. Monuments: one wall tablet of 1840 by Soper of Sarum, and two C20 brasses. West window glass of 1893. C17 arm chair in sanctuary. (Pevsner, Buildings of England, Wiltshire)

Listing NGR: SU1902236500