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St Nicholas

St Nicholas

Hockerton CP

Nottinghamshire

C12, C13, C14, restored 1876 by Hodgson Fowler.

Architectural Features

Plain tile roofs with decorative ridge.

Embattled diagonally buttressed tower of 2 stages with bands, upper stage C14, set on a chamfered plinth with moulded band over.

Single worn gargoyle on each side.

Above is a single restored C14 arched 3 light window with cusped panel tracery, hood mould and human head label stops.

There are 4 arched C14 bell chamber openings each with 2 arched and cusped lights.

To the left is a single C14 3 light window with arched and cusped lights under a flat arch with hood mould and human head label stops.

The chancel is set on a chamfered plinth and has in the north wall a blocked arched doorway with hood mould and to the left a single C14 window with 3 arched and cusped lights under a flat arch.

The east chancel has a single C14 window with 3 arched and cusped lights, mouchettes, flat arch, hood mould and label stops over is a flush relieving arch.

To the right is a carved C14 grotesque head.

Single restored C14 window with 3 arched and cusped lights, tracery and flat arch.

To the left is a single small chamfered arched C12 light.

Inner Caernarvon arched doorway with stoup in the east wall and decorative wooden bench end inscribed "O M 1599". to the left of the porch is a single C13 lancet with hood mould.

Unmoulded C12 chancel arch.

The south chancel has an arched recess with hood mould and label stops, and inner worn decoratively carved C14 niche, probably the remains of an Easter Sepulchre.

Restored C16 alms box.

Some bench ends C16 decorated with carved indents with C19 replicas, font and remaining furniture C19.

The memorial to John Whetham, 1781, has an oval inscription plaque with fluted brackets supporting an entablature surmunted by a decorative urn with shroud draped over.