Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. Church.
Church of St Nicholas
- WRENN ID
- stony-quoin-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Nicholas, Lazonby
- OS grid reference
- NY 549 397
- Coordinates
- 54.75078, -2.70202
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Nicholas is a parish church built in 1863 for Eleanor Maclean by architect Anthony Salvin on a medieval site. It is constructed from coursed red and calciferous Lazonby sandstone with flush quoins, set on a chamfered plinth. The roof is made of graduated greenslate and features coped gables and cross finials. The church has a three-bay nave with a north aisle, a south porch, and a west square three-storey tower. The chancel is two bays long and includes a north vestry.
The tower features a west three-light plate-tracery window, upper-floor lancets, and a south clock face. It also has a large two-light bell opening flanked by cusped side panels, all with pointed heads under hoodmoulds. The tower is topped with a battlemented parapet and has a north projecting angle stair turret. The porch contains a studded plank door set in a pointed arch.
The nave has flat-headed two-light windows with cusped heads, along with a similar single window on the right that has a rounded head. The aisle has two-light windows with cusped heads. The vestry includes steps leading up to a priest's doorway with a shouldered arch, cusped-headed windows, and a three-light east window with plate-tracery.
Inside, the church features a three-bay arcade of pointed arches supported by round columns and an open timber roof. There are carved tracery screens in the tower arch, baptistry, and chancel. The doors are decorated with panels of scrolled leaves, and there is a carved oak pulpit on an octagonal stone base, along with a carved oak eagle lectern.
Local climate
Church of St Nicholas sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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