Parish Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1985. A C19 Church.

Parish Church of St Nicholas

WRENN ID
leaning-tin-barley
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 October 1985
Type
Church
Address
Parish Church of St Nicholas, Risborough Road, Kingsey
OS grid reference
SP 743 067
Coordinates
51.75456, -0.92455
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Parish Church of St Nicholas is a church built between 1892 and 1893 by J. Moir, designed in the late Perpendicular Gothic style. It is constructed of coursed rubblestone with ashlar dressings and features old tile roofs, with a shingled spire. The church has a two-bay chancel with gabled side chapels and a three-and-a-half bay nave that includes a south tower/porch located to the south of the west bay.

The chancel is highlighted by a five-light east window, while the chapels each have a two-light window. The nave contains four-centred arched three-light windows, with three on the north side and two on the south. The east half-bay of the nave has lean-to additions on either side; the south addition serves as a porch with a door, and the north addition features a three-light window. The south chapel functions as a vestry and has a chimney on the gable, while the north chapel houses the organ.

Architectural details include weathered buttresses, stone-coped gables with kneelers, and Celtic apex crosses. The west front displays two two-light windows separated by a weathered buttress. The porch/tower features a four-centred west arch with cusped panelling above and a south three-light window. The ringing chamber has single cusped lights, and the belfry is adorned with straight-headed three-light windows that have stone louvres, tracery tops, and moulded heads and jambs. The spire is broached, and there are shallow buttresses, along with a stair turret in the northeast angle.

Inside, the chancel includes sedilia to the south, and there are four-centred arches leading to the chapels and the chancel arch. The roofs of the nave and chancel are supported by arch-braced scissor trusses with tracery spandrels. Memorial tablets commemorate Mrs. Wykeham from 1823 and Philip Wykeham from 1832. The stained glass in the chancel east windows and the nave west window was created by Kemp in 1901 and 1924.

Local climate

Parish Church of St Nicholas receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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