Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II* listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1966. A Medieval Church.

Church of St Nicholas

WRENN ID
outer-bronze-frost
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Aylesbury MP: Laura Kyrke-Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 October 1966
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Church of St Nicholas, High Street, Cublington
OS grid reference
SP 838 222
Coordinates
51.89208, -0.78255
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Nicholas is a parish church dating from the early 15th century, which has been restored. It is constructed of coursed rubble limestone with some greensand, and features repairs in brick and tile, along with some brick buttresses. The church has 20th-century tile roofs and includes a west tower, nave, a 19th-century south porch, a north porch that now serves as a vestry, and a chancel.

The west tower has an altered ashlar parapet, diagonal buttresses, and arched openings to the bell chamber, each with two lights, with the southern opening featuring blind tracery in the tympanum. The west side of the tower has a two-light Decorated window set in a deeply splayed and multi-chamfered surround. The nave contains two bays of restored two-light traceried windows on the north side and five doors. The north porch has a blocked semi-circular arch with paired leaded casements, while the south door features a moulded two-centred arch. The south porch has an altered 19th-century wooden door frame with a Tudor arch. The chancel includes two bays of much restored two-light traceried windows and a three-light Perpendicular window to the east, with a small blocked low-side window on the south side.

Inside, there is a tall triple-chamfered tower arch and a double-chamfered chancel arch with an inner order supported by corbels featuring carved figures. The chancel has 15th-century niches with battlemented canopies and 19th-century carved figures of saints flanking the east window. There is a small restored piscina with a trefoil head. Notable fittings include a 17th-century chair, some 17th-century pews at the rear of the nave, a 12th-century chest, and an 18th-century royal coat of arms over the south door. The font, pulpit, and other fittings are from the 19th century. The church also contains two small 15th-century brasses with inscriptions, along with a marble wall monument to Bernard Turney and family from 1686, featuring flanking Ionic columns, an entablature, and a segmental pediment with a coat of arms.

Local climate

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 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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