Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II* listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1969. A Medieval Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Nicholas
- WRENN ID
- distant-granite-saffron
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Daventry MP: Stuart Andrew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1969
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Nicholas, School Lane, Eydon
- OS grid reference
- SP 541 499
- Coordinates
- 52.14549, -1.21063
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II* listed building located on Eydon School Lane. It dates from the 13th and 14th centuries and was restored and enlarged between 1864 and 1865 by R.C. Hussey, who added the south aisle and extended the north aisle eastward to create a vestry. The church is constructed of squared coursed ironstone with limestone dressings and has a slate roof. It features a chancel, a north vestry, an aisled nave, a south porch, and a west tower.
The east window of the chancel is from the 19th century, while the south side has three 14th-century two-light windows with flowing tracery. The north aisle contains three 14th-century two-light windows with flowing tracery and a late Perpendicular west window with three arched uncusped lights and a square hood. There is a blocked 14th-century north doorway. The early 14th-century west tower has two stages, a crenellated parapet, and 19th-century pinnacles, with bell openings and a west window featuring Y-tracery. The west doorway is adorned with continuous mouldings.
Inside, there is a 14th-century piscina recess with a cusped ogee arch in the chancel. The chancel arch consists of two chamfered orders supported by corbels carved with leaves. The four-bay north arcade has double chamfered arches and an early 13th-century round pier with a square abacus to the west; the other piers are from the 19th century. The church also has a Romanesque font with a base resembling an octagonal scalloped capital and a recessed circular bowl decorated with fluting and a band of stylized leaves around the top. The north aisle features stained glass heraldic shields, created around 1830 by Russell of Oxford. In the south aisle, there is a badly weathered stone effigy of a lady from the 14th century and a monument to the Rev. Francis Annesley, who died in 1811, created by Bacon junior. This monument consists of a grey and white marble wall tablet with an urn in shallow relief, positioned above a doorway in the south aisle.
Local climate
Church of St Nicholas sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% 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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