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Latitude: 52.634 / 52°38'2"N
Longitude: -2.1991 / 2°11'56"W
OS Eastings: 386618
OS Northings: 304051
OS Grid: SJ866040
Mapcode National: GBR 18R.W9F
Mapcode Global: WHBFR.6210
Plus Code: 9C4VJRM2+J8
Entry Name: Church of St Nicholas
Listing Date: 27 June 1963
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1374035
English Heritage Legacy ID: 271431
ID on this website: 101374035
Location: St Nicholas's Church, Codsall, South Staffordshire, WV8
County: Staffordshire
District: South Staffordshire
Civil Parish: Codsall
Built-Up Area: Codsall
Traditional County: Staffordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Staffordshire
Church of England Parish: Codsall St Nicholas
Church of England Diocese: Lichfield
Tagged with: Church building
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CODSALL C.P.
CHURCH ROAD (north west side)
Church of St Nicholas
27.6.63
II*
Parish Church. C12 S. doorway; C14 tower; the rest 1846-8 by E. Banks of Wolverhampton. Ashlar; clay tile roofs with fishscale bands, Single cell chancel; five bay nave; aisles; south porch; north vestry; West Tower with diagonal buttresses.
West Tower: Early to mid C14; large west window of three lights with cusped intersecting tracery and plain hood-mould stopped with two large grotesque heads; strings at belfry level terminated on each face by grotesque heads; belfry openings of two lights with cinquefoil heads; crenellated parapet, restored with corner finials.
South Elevation: bay divisions of aisle marked by stepped buttresses; all windows of aisle and chancel are of two cinquefoil headed lights with reticulated or flowing tracery above; returned hood moulds; gabled South porch with pointed outer doorway, to a reset South doorway with round head of two orders, both with chevron ornament and a foliated hood mould, flanked by nook shafts with carved capitals; the chancel had an ogee headed door to left with ogee hand mould.
Interior: octagonal piers with C14 style capitals to pointed nave arcade of two chamfered orders; tall pointed chancel arch; open timber roofs with scissor trusses in nave and aisles.
Monument: Walter Wrottesley died 1630; recumbant effigy, five kneeling figures on sides of tomb chest. Stained glass mainly C19.
Listing NGR: SJ8661804051
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