Description

ASHILL SWAFFHAM ROAD
TF 80 SE (north side)

Church of St.Nicholas
10/1
23:6:60

GV I

Parish church. Medieval and later. Flint with ashlar and some brick
dressings. Slate and copper roofs. West tower; nave with south aisle and
south porch; chancel with vestry to north. Early C14 west tower with diagonal
buttresses. Ogee headed west door with 5 orders of mouldings. A 3-light
Decorated window above with reticulated motif of soufflet with dagger and
mouchettes. 3 single light cusped windows to second floor and 2-light cusped
Y-traceried bell-openings. Crenellated parapet. C15 2-storey porch with
diagonal buttresses of arrowhead section. Moulded entrance arch with a small
cusped niche and a 3-light window above. 2-light side windows. C19 south
doorway. Aisle with 5 3-light panel-traceried windows the 3 easternmost with
highly elaborate carved transoms. 6 2-light clearstorey windows with
mouchettes. North wall with a blocked early C14 doorway and 3 large 3-light
Perpendicular windows. Chancel with one 2-light cusped Y-traceried window,
an early C14 2-light Y-traceried window with pointed trefoils and a priest's
door to the south. Renovated 3-light east window in C14 style. Interior.
6-bay south arcade with a further narrow bay to the east. Octagonal piers
supporting arches of 2 plain-chamfered orders. Massive C14 tower arch with
filletted semicircular responds supporting a wave-moulded arch of 2 and 3
orders. Chancel arch of 2 hollow-chamfered orders supported on polygonal
responds. Simple arched piscina in south aisle. Chancel with angle piscina
of 2 trefoil arches and a colonnette. Scoinson arches to chancel windows:
on a pair of narrow shafts to the east. C19 arcading on east wall with inset
encaustic tiles. C19 chancel screen incorporating fragments of a Medieval
screen

Listing NGR: TF8840904195

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17535523

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey