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St Nicholas

St Nicholas

North Bradley

Wiltshire

C15, restored 1861 by T.H. Wyatt

Architectural Features

Gabled C15 porch has diagonal buttresses, moulded pointed doorway with sundial over inscribed TEMPUS FUGIT, Rawlings of Bradford of Avon, 1777

C15 south chapel has three large Tudor-arched 4-light Perpendicular windows, buttresses with offsets, planked door to right and 5-light east window, battlemented parapet

Chancel has C19 square-headed south window, diagonal buttresses and C19 three-light east window in C14 style

North chapel has pair of fine C15 square- headed windows to east and north

cornice with gargoyles to battlemented parapet

C19 three-bay arcades in C13 style with cylindrical piers and pointed arches, lean-to C19 aisle roofs

has fine moulded rib-panelled ceiling with quatrefoils with carved floral designs

lid has incised figure of a woman

South chapel, also C15, has moulded rib-panelled ceiling, collection of C18 wall tablets

good rococo marble with egg and dart mouldings and richly carved floral decoration to Henry Long died 1727, attributed to Ford, Baroque marble with twisted columns to cornice to urn, to William Trenchard died 1733

Fittings: cast-iron and wooden C19 communion rail, C15-style stone panelled reredos, polychrome tiled floor in chancel

C18 brass candelabra in chancel and chapels

C17 polygonal carved wooden pulpit reset on C19 stone plinth

Octagonal Perpendicular font with symbols of the Passion in cusped panels

C19 font cover

Stained glass in south chancel window by T.R. Lamont in memory of his wives Mary and Bessie, 1880s

Marble tablet over pulpit to Rev Charles Daubeny died 1827, founder of Daubeny Almshouses (q.v.), signed by Reeves of Bath