Description

CHIPPENHAM

ST97SW HARDENHUISH LANE 930-1/1/39 Church of St Nicholas 22/06/78

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Parish Church. c1779. By John Wood the Younger, of Bath. Limestone ashlar with slate roof. STYLE: Classical. PLAN: rectangular. EXTERIOR: square central entrance tower flanked by wider stair turrets at the west end; splayed bay to the apse. A balustraded parapet surrounds the building except the tower. Semicircular-arched windows with Y tracery to the 2nd stage of the 3-stage tower. A flight of steps flanked by cast-iron railings leads up to double doors of 3 panels with a moulded architrave and bracketed pediment, below a clock and tall window, similar windows to the returns. A stepped string course and modillion cornice support an octagonal belfry. This has 4 semicircular bell-openings flanked by engaged columns supporting an entablature and octagonal-domed lead roof, ball finial and weather vane. The tower is flanked by stair turrets with semicircular arched niches below sunk panels; to the sides similar features are glazed. The nave has Venetian windows with balustraded aprons; 2 to the south side, 2 to the north side except one toward the front is without side lights. The apse, flanked by lead rainwater heads and downpipes, has semicircular-arched recesses. INTERIOR: not inspected but reported to have detached columns to the Venetian windows and carved garlands to a frieze; painted Lord's Prayer, Commandments and Creed to the apse. The originally projected centralised plan with polygonal apse, side walls each with a Venetian window and a polygonal west entrance, was not carried out. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Cherry B: Wiltshire 2nd Edition: London: 1967-1975: 264).

Listing NGR: ST9096674748

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)