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St Nicholas and attached walls

St Nicholas And Attached Walls

Chiswick

Greater London

Chancel: five-light Geometrical-style east window, above 1914-18 war memorial depicting a carving of the Crucifixion

Architectural Features

Four bay north and south aisle elevations have Perpendicular-style fenestration, canted stair turret to each side and string course with gargoyles beneath ashlar castellated parapet with trefoiled blind arches

C15 west tower of three stages with angle buttresses and string courses

C15 hoodmould over late C19 three-light Perpendicular-style window above

Minton tile floor

brass Gothic-style communion rail

carved Gothic-style benches

chancel is flanked by finely carved Perpendicular-style screens with cusped open tracery and foliate friezes

finely-carved Perpendicular-style screen with cusped open tracery and carved foliate friezes

carved wooden Perpendicular-style pulpit, fine brass eagle lectern dated 1881 and late C19 benches with carved ends

Tall C15 archway with engaged shafts to west tower

very fine monument to Sir William Chaloner, d. 1615, and his two wives, d. 1603 and 1615, has heraldic achievement set over baldachino, its curtains held open by flanking figures, with kneeling figures of Sir William and wife at prayer

Chancel has brass to Mary Litcott, d.1599

North aisle has early/mid C19 wall tablets, including one with mourning angel leaning on urn

Early C19 wall tablets and early C18 architectural monument at west end of nave

memorial, to Richard Taylor, d. 1716, set in Corinthian aedicule with heraldic cartouche flanked by figures of Father Time and Angel of Death

Stained glass: is late C19 and by Clayton and Bell, and east window of south chapel has glass from clerestory of Cologne Cathedral

reset C17 tablet records that first wall on site was built in 1623 at the charge of Lord Francis Russell, Earl of Bedford