Description

NY 53 NW,
5/111

LAZONBY,
LAZONBY,
Church of St Nicholas

II

Parish Church. 1863 for Eleanor Maclean by Anthony Salvin on medieval site.
Coursed red and calciferous Lazonby sandstone with flush quoins, on chamfered
plinth. Graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and cross finials. 3-bay
nave with north aisle, south porch and west square 3-storey tower; 2-bay chancel
with north vestry. Tower has west 3-light plate-tracery window, upper-floor
lancets and south clock face; large 2-light bell opening flanked by cusped side
panels, all with pointed heads under hoodmoulds. Battlemented parapet and north
projecting angle stair turret. Porch has studded plank door in pointed arch.
Nave has flat-headed 2-light windows with cusped heads and right similar single
window with rounded head. Aisle has 2-light cusped-head windows. Vestry has
steps up to priests doorway with shouldered arch; cusped-headed windows and
3-light east window with plate-tracery. Interior has 3-bay arcade of pointed
arches on round columns. Open timber roof. Carved tracery screens in tower
arch, baptistry and chancel. Doors carved with panels of scrolled leaves.
Carved oak pulpit on octagonal stone base. Carved oak eagle lectern.

Listing NGR: NY5491239762

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26321338

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