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St Nicholas

Brockenhurst

Hampshire

C12 church, chancel and porch late C13, tower 1761, aisle 1832, restored 1896 & 1908

Architectural Features

Rubble stone with stone dressings, old plain tile roofs, stone tile lower courses to chancel, brick tower and aisle, shingled spire

Plan of C12 nave with late C13 chancel and south porch, west tower and north aisle with vestry at each end

Nave has to south C16 2-light trefoiled squareheaded window under label with crest and headstops

Inside C12 south door of 2-roundheaded-orders, inner square with abaci, outer of columns, scalloped capitals and arch with chevrons

Inside chancel C19 gothic monuments, that to south surrounds door

At south west C14 septfoiled recess

C17 pointed plastered roof having ribs with pendants

Chancel arch probably C17 roundheaded rebuild, but on nave side above timber tiebeam is plaster with trellis wallpainting

Late C12 Purbeck font of square bowl with roundheaded arcading, on replaced central column and corner columns

C17 font cover

Pulpit C19 in Jacobean style

C18 Royal Arms Board

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