Description

BURMINGTON
SP23NE
7/7 Church of S.S. Barnabas and
13/10/66 Nicholas
(Formerly listed as Parish
Church of S.S. Barnabas and
Nicholas

GV II

Church. Probably C13, with rebuilding of 1693 and mid C19. Limestone ashlar with
plinth, quoins and coped gables. Concrete tile roof. Chancel with north vestry,
nave and north-west bell turret. Chancel of 2 bays. To east a C19 three-light
window in the Early English style, with plate tracery and hood mould with carved
label stops. Below, a string course with carved labels at each end. To north a
C19 vestry with plank north door with chamfered, shouldered arch. To east a
2-light chamfered window with shouldered-arch heads. To south two C19 lancets
with chamfered surrounds. Nave of 3 bays. To south a C19 gabled porch. Pointed
arch doorway with Early English style shaft and capital within double chamfered
surround. C19 pointed arch doorway with double chamfered surround and plank
door. To north and south single and paired lancets with chamfered surrounds.
North-west bell turret of 2 stages, built C19 with offset angle buttresses. To
north a plank door within a chamfered, round shouldered arch. Above, to north,
and to first and second stage west a small single-chamfered light. Square wood
bell turret with louvres, and pyramidal wood shingled roof. Interior: chancel
has Early English style cusped piscina with moulded surround in north wall. C13
pointed and chamfered chancel arch with 2, possibly re-used corbels, one with a
trumpet-scalloped capital, the other with a stylized foliage capital. C19 west
gallery. C19 corbels and roofs. Font is possibly medieval, re-worked. C19
Pre-Raphaelite crucifixion panel in north nave window.
(Buildings of England: Warwickshire, pp.220-221; V.C.H.: Warwickshire, Vol.5,
p.27).

Listing NGR: SP2636237946

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26275101

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Recommended Books

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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)