Description

ST 96 NE CALNE WITHOUT BACK LANE, Sandy Lane

5/1 Church of St. Nicholas

II

Anglican chapel of ease, now parish church, 1892, by J.W. Hopkins
of Worcester. Timber-frame with thatched gabled roof. Six A-frame
trusses extending outside walls to iron shoes raised off ground on
brick and connected under floor by tie-rods. Walling of boarded
sandwich panels infilled with sawdust, horizontally boarded below,
herringbone boarding between windows. Leaded timber windows, two
3-light each side, large mullion-and-transom end windows, 4-light
to west, 3-light to east, the top-lights with Gothic fretted wood
tracery. Similar tracery in angles between principal beams and
outer walls. Thatched gabled south porch.
Interior wholly boarded with carved wood screen and wood font.
Built as a mission church for £170, £220 with fittings, the design
intended as an alternative to the 'hideous and comfortless iron
buildings so generally used'.
(N. Pevsner, Wiltshire, 1975, 462; Information sheet in church)

Listing NGR: ST9664667736

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26544892

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