Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1958. Church. 2 related planning applications.
Church of St Nicholas
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 February 1958
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Nicholas, Winterslow Road, Idmiston, SP4 0LF
- OS grid reference
- SU 190 364
- Coordinates
- 51.12746, -1.72954
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Nicholas is an Anglican parish church built between 1876 and 1877 by architect J.L. Pearson. It is constructed from flint with brick dressings and features tiled roofs. The church consists of a nave, a chancel with a vestry at right angles, and a south porch. The nave has two-light Decorated style windows, while the chancel has a three-light window at the east end and a short three-light gable window for the vestry. There is a mid wall string that steps up under the east and west windows, and gable crosses adorn the structure. A bellcote with double openings and a crocketed gable is located over the west end of the nave, and the porch features an open trussed rafter roof with a boarded inner door.
Inside, the nave has three bays with tie beams and a facetted barrel vault. The walls are rendered, and there is a bowtell string at the base of the window embrasures. The chancel arch is wide, and the chancel itself has a panelled vault. Notable features include a piscina on the north wall, sedilia with nook shafts on the south, and an oak reredos. The church fittings include a 15th-century font that has been reset, featuring an octagonal bowl with trefoil-headed panels and varied fleurons below. The pulpit is made of oak and sits on a stone base, while the sanctuary rail consists of an oak pole on iron supports. Monuments within the church include a wall tablet from 1840 by Soper of Sarum and two 20th-century brasses. The west window glass dates from 1893, and there is a 17th-century armchair in the sanctuary.
Local climate
Church of St Nicholas receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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
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