Description

HICKLING MAIN STREET
SK62NE (east side)
6/70 Church of St Luke
1.12.65
GV I
Church. Predominantly C14, clerestory and porch C15, chancel rebuilt
1845, tower rebuilt 1873, general restoration 1886. Thinly coursed
rubble with ashlar dressings. Ashlar tower. Lead roofs. West
tower, 4-bay nave with lean-to north and south aisles and south porch.
3-bay chancel. Tall 3-stage tower with angle buttresses, 3-light
west window, 2-light bell-chamber openings, decorative frieze and
crenellated parapet. Embattled south porch. Two 2-light south
aisle windows with cusped lights. Two 2-light north aisle windows
with geometrical tracery and a simply moulded doorway. The chancel
windows are of 2 and 3 lights with square heads, Perpendicular tracery
and deep square hood moulds. The chancel is also embattled. Built
into the west wall of the south aisle is an early C14 coffin lid with
relief carving of naturalistic foliage growing from a cross with stepped
base and foiled head.
Interior: 4-bay north and south arcades with double-chamfered arches
on octagonal piers with moulded capitals. Nave roof has massive
quadrant moulded tie-beams, and some purlins are similarly moulded.
Chancel arch on round responds which are slightly filleted. Piscina,
south aisle, east end. Octagonal font with plain shields and angels
under the bowl. The cover is simple with a re-cut centre piece dated
1665. Small poor-box on a pedestal, carved in raised letters in sunk
panels on 3 sides:

REME THE POORE
MBER
HF 16 85 RB

The south door has delicate C13, flowing ironwork. At the east end
of the south aisle is an excellent mid C10 Saxon coffin lid with much
interlace, a cross and 2 beasts. Bench ends with heads on the arms
and in the poppy heads. A brass on the chancel floor of 1521 to Master
Ralph Babington, rector.
N Pevsner. The Buildings of England, 1979.

Listing NGR: SK6918829279

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Luke's Church, Hickling at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q15979393

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Recommended Books

• 
  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  For the Record
• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)