Parish Church Of St Nicholas

SP 7311 CUDDINGTON UPPER CHURCH STREET (east side)

8/102 Parish Church of St. Nicholas

21.12.67

GV II*

Parish church. C13. North aisle widened c1330, south porch C14. West Tower C15. North vestry C19. Rubblestone with limestone dressings. Old tile roofs. 2 bay chancel with north east vestry. 4 bay nave with 2 bay south chapel and 2 bay south aisle, porch, and 3 bay north aisle. West tower. Chancel has angle buttresses and weathered buttress between bays. East window 3-lights of intersecting foiled tracery. North west and south east windows 2-light flat-headed C15 with cinquefoil heads. North aisle and south chapel east windows 3-lights of intersecting tracery. North aisle north wall has C14 2-light east window, 2 centre arched doorway and west window of 2 Tudor arched lights. West wall has 4-centred arched window of 3 ogee lights. South chapel south windows of 2 trefoiled ogee lights and tracery in a square head with moulded labels and decayed headstops. Inside are C13 jambs with remains of nook shafts, bases and capitals. South aisle has at left 2-centred 2-light window. Porch has 2 continuous orders and hoodmould. Inner doorway to aisle C13 of 2 moulded orders with dogtooth. Outer order has angle shaft with caps. Chamfered inner order. West Tower of 3 stages with moulded string courses and embattled parapet. Diagonal buttresses at west. Stair turret rising above north east corner. West doorway has 4-centred moulded arch. 3-light window above. Single light ringing chamber windows on south and west sides. Bell chamber has 2-light cinquefoil windows. Church has stone coped gables with finials. Interior. Chancel has octagonal moulded corbel cap piscina in south east angle. Chancel arch of 2 square orders with bowtells. Semi-octagonal responds. Simple bell caps. Moulded bases and abaci. Nave north arcade has east arch of 2 chamfered orders. Octagonal column. 2 west bays later C13 of 2 hollow chamfered orders. West column has moulded base and fluted and scalloped cap. South nave arcade: East and west responds semi-octagonal. 3 Cylindrical piers, east one with scalloped-cap. Arches of 2 hollow chamfered orders. South chapel has trefoil head piscina. Arch into south aisle of 2 moulded orders. Crude moulded caps and bases on attached segmental shafts. Tower arch of 2 continuous chamfered orders. Victorian roofs, arch braced collar trusses to chancel, wagon roofs to south chapel and north aisle. Collar purlin roof to nave. Stained glass: C14 angels in south chapel east window. Chancel east window by Powell 1857, designed by G.E. Street. Early English style pulpit by Street. Font: C13 circular bowl, ornamented with shallow arcade of pointed arches. RCHM I. 109. MON.1.

Listing NGR: SP7373711209