Parish Church Of St Nicholas

SP 70 NW KINGSEY RISBOROUGH ROAD (north side)

6/326 Parish Church of St. Nicholas

• II

Parish church. 1892-3 by J. Moir in late Perpendicular Gothic style. Coursed rubblestone with ashlar dressings. Old tile roofs. Spire shingled. 2 bay chancel with gabled side chapels, 3½ bay nave with south tower/porch to south of west bay. Chancel has 5-light east window. Chapels have 2-light window. Nave has 4-centred arched 3-light windows, 3 to north side, 2 to south. East half-bay of nave has lean-to addition each side,south one a porch with door, north one with 3-light window. South 'chapel' is vestry with chimney to gable, north 'chapel' contains organ. Weathered buttresses. Stone coped gables with kneelers and Celtic apex crosses. West front has two 2-light windows separated by weathered buttress. Porch/tower has 4-centred west arch with cusped panelling above, south 3-light window. Single cusped lights to ringing chamber. Straight headed 3-light belfry windows with stone louvres. Tracery tops and moulded heads and jambs. Broach spire. Shallow buttresses. Stair turret in north east angle. Interior. Chancel has sedilia to south. 4 centred arches to 'chapels' and chancel arch. Nave and chancel roofs have arch braced scissor trusses with tracery spandrels. Memorial tablet to Mrs. Wykeham 1823, and Philip Wykeham 1832. Chancel east windows and nave west window stained glass by Kemp, 1901 and 1924.

Listing NGR: SP7432906755