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St Nicolas

St Nicolas

Great Chishill

Cambridgeshire

Chancel C12, extended late C13 or early C14

Architectural Features

tower late C14 or earlier with C16 belfry windows.

Late C14 nave, originally with low-pitched parapetted roof.

North porch (demolished) and south porch late C14.

C19 restoration included replacement of C15 nave windows, and building of gable roof of nave and pyramidal roof to tower.

Chancel of two buttressed bays with C12 or early C13 priests' doorway of one plain and one lightly chamfered orders with two-centred arched head and chamfered impost.

Window to west of two trefoiled lights with arch masked by plaster, tomb recess below with C13 coffin and lid.

C14 window to east of two lights with reticulated tracery in a two-centred arch, (east window C16,

to north C12 round arched window with roll moulded inner arch becoming shafted jambs with capitals and bases).

Interior: Tower arch late C14 or early C15 two-centred of five chamfered and moulded orders

C12 internal string course on western half of north wall and fragment on south wall.

Piscina with ovolo moulded jambs, two-centred head and foiled drain, C14.

Font, octagonal bowl with quatrefoil panels and truncated octagonal stem, late C14.

Chancel roof, early C14, ashlared braced-collar rafters (qv Rectory Farmhouse reused.) Glass in chancel grisaille foliation C14,

fragments of tabernacle work C15

C16, in tracery of quatrefoil of south window grisaille piece in situ.

Memorial glass by Kempe and Tower c.1916 in east window.