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Latitude: 51.6143 / 51°36'51"N
Longitude: -1.5432 / 1°32'35"W
OS Eastings: 431726
OS Northings: 190705
OS Grid: SU317907
Mapcode National: GBR 6XN.LPR
Mapcode Global: VHC0T.6PJC
Plus Code: 9C3WJF74+PP
Entry Name: Church of St Nicholas
Listing Date: 21 November 1966
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1048680
English Heritage Legacy ID: 250832
ID on this website: 101048680
Location: St Nicholas Church, Baulking, Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, SN7
County: Oxfordshire
District: Vale of White Horse
Civil Parish: Baulking
Traditional County: Berkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Oxfordshire
Church of England Parish: Baulking
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
Tagged with: Church building
BAULKING
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5/3 Church of St. Nicholas
21/11/66
GV I
Church. Mid C13. Coursed limestone rubble, nave walls rendered over; limestone
ashlar dressings; stone slate roof. Chancel, long nave, small bellcote to west.
3 mid C13 pointed lancets to each window; north and south walls of chancel have
2 pointed lancets. North wall of nave has plain mid C13 doorway with moulded
impost and early C15 three-light cusped window with label mould to left; south
wall has similar mid C13 doorway and 2 late C13 two-light windows; corner and
wall buttresses including one flying buttress to south dated 1882. Limestone
coping slabs to gabled roof, rendered walls to bellcote which has pyramidal
roof. Interior: 3 east window lancets are shafted on the inside; late C19 and
early C20 stained glass windows; corner piscina to south wall. 3-bay roof; butt
purlins, arch-braced collar trusses possibly of late Cl6 date. To north of
chancel screen are blocked rood stairs. Mid C13 unusual rood screen pierced by
square openings. Nave has stone flag floor with some ledger stones near door;
Jacobean pulpit brought from Grittleton (Wiltshire) and placed on late C19
limestone base; octagonal limestone pulpit; late C19 benches and vestry screen
to west; fragments of C14 nativity scene on north wall. 2 early C18 and one late
C18 wall tablets, and also on the north wall a painted wall tablet in memory of
Robert Grove, died 1693. 6-bay roof in Jacobean style with pendants to tie beams
but dated 1708; braced collar trusses, butt purlins. A complete example of a
small mid C13 church with unusual screen and some C14 wall paintings.
(Buildings of England: Berkshire, pp.78-79).
Listing NGR: SU3172390703
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