Church of St Nicholas is a Grade I listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. A Early English (chancel) Church.

Church of St Nicholas

WRENN ID
silver-vault-reed
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Cotswold
Constituency
South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
Country
England
Type
Church
Period
Early English (chancel)
Address
Church of St Nicholas, Cherington
OS grid reference
ST 902 985
Coordinates
51.68564, -2.14207
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Nicholas is a parish church with foundations dating back to the 12th century. The chancel was rebuilt in the mid-13th century, and there have been other medieval alterations along with two restorations in the 19th century, specifically in 1816 and 1881. The church is constructed of rubble stone, with squared stone on the tower, and features a Cotswold stone slate roof, except for the lead roof over the nave.

The layout includes a chancel, a nave with a south transept and a north porch, and a west tower. The tower is battlemented and consists of three stages, stepping in slightly at each offset. The top stage has twin square-headed stone belfry louvres. The west side of the tower features a three-light ogee window on the bottom stage and a single-light ogee window on the middle stage. The early English chancel has three lancets linked by a string course to the north, two to the south, and a two-light Decorated window in the corner with the transept. The nave contains three-light ogee windows from the 19th century flanking a large gabled porch, along with a small quatrefoil window adjoining the chancel on the north side and two large Decorated windows, also from the 19th century, on the south side.

Inside, the shallow nave roof was repitched around 1500 and features four bays with chamfered tie-beams and Perpendicular arcading, supported on carved struts on stone corbels. The east window has early plate tracery, and there is a small Norman piscina along with a 13th-century double piscina above it. A low wide arch leads to the south transept, which contains vestiges of mural paintings in the reveal of the east window. There is an 18th-century communion rail and numerous monuments from the 17th and 18th centuries, particularly wall-mounted in the chancel.

Local climate

Church of St Nicholas receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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