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Saint Nicholas

Rooks Nest

Hertfordshire

Aisles added C13, circa 1230, Aisles widened and C12 chancel rebuilt circa 1330

Architectural Features

C15 nave clerestory, nave and chancel roofs aisle arcades rebuilt on existing columns, towers and angle buttresses, spire (lead renewed 1899). North east vestry South transept and south porch 1841. south aisle enlarged 1912-14

Early C13 font, late C14 or early C15 choir stalls with misericords, restored C15 roof screen, finely carved with foliated pinnacles, cusped ogee arches, Piscina and pedillia

Late C13 stone effigy of lady and 2 attendants

Carved marble wall monument to Charles Gibbon, 1771

Well designed black and white marble Turner wall monument, 1844

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