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St Nicholas

Kiddington

Oxfordshire

Mostly C14 with C12 core

Architectural Features

chancel rebuilt in 1845 by G.G. Scott but incorporating C12 work

Chancel rebuilt in a neo-Norman style

Nave and transept: chamfered plinth, coved parapet string course with carved gargoyles at corners, and parapet with chamfered coping

South side of nave: central square-headed window of 2 cinquefoil-headed lights with cusped flowing tracery, chamfered reveals and hood mould with carved heads as stops

Continuously-moulded south doorway in angle to right with pair of C19 boarded doors and hood mould with carved heads as stops

Gabled stone porch with cored string course, parapet with chamfered coping, and continuously-moulded archway covered by hood mould with carved heads as stops

Outer bays have square-headed windows, that to left C14 of 2 cinquefoil-headed lights with cusped tracery, chamfered reveals and returned hood mould and that to right a C19 restoration of 2 ogee trefoil-headed lights, reticulated tracery, chamfered reveals and returned hood mould

Transept: large square-headed south window of 3 ogee cinquefoil-headed lights with reticulated tracery, moulded reveals and hood mould with carved stops (left-hand stop weathered, right-hand stop is a carved beast). South doorway to left with continuously-moulded arch, hood mould with carved heads and stops and C19 boarded door

Square-headed east window of 2 ogee cinquefoil-headed lights with cusped tracery, chamfered reveals and hood mould with carved stops (beasts). East wall of nave and chancel with weathering of former chancel roof-pitch

Chancel: flush dressed stone eaves band, and chamfered stone eaves band with corbel table, including many reused well-carved C12 corbels

Continuous double-chamfered tower arch covered by hood mould with carved heads as stops

hood mould with carved heads as stops

C19 two-bay transept roof with moulded cambered tie-beam, curved brackets springing from old carved stone corbels (possibly reset), chamfered purlins with broach stops and chamfered rafters

Double sedilia in south wall of chancel formed from former C14 twb-light window (in east wall until 1848) with cinquefoil-headed arched openings panelled tracery, chamfered reveals and returned hood mould

Reset C12 chancel arch to apse consisting of one order of shafts with cushion capitals and moulded bases, moulded imposts, chevron ornament to arch and chevron-ornamented hood mould

"SANCTUS SANCTUS SANCTUS". Oak reredos of 1901, by Harry Hems and Sons of Exeter, with traceried panels, carved frieze and cresting and 2 carved angels in niches

Wrought-iron and brass altar rails

Oak choir stalls with pierced carved backs, carved poppyheads and trefoil-arcaded frontals

Oak chancel screen dated 1897, also by Hems and Sons of Exeter, with pierced cinquefoil-headed lights, blind traceried lower panels, and carved frieze and cresting

Brass lectern

Polygonal wooden pulpit with trefoil panels and circular stone stem

C14 polygonal stone font with 2-light blind traceried panels, ball-flower ornament to frieze and C19 iron-bound wooden cover

Vestry with revised C12 carved grotesque corbel heads, chamfered-arched corner fireplace with wooden cornice, and chamfered rear arch to north window

C19 brass electric chandeliers in chancel, nave and transept

Stone floors throughout, except for C19 tiles to chancel and vestry

Stained glass: apse windows of 1879, by Clayton and Bell

More C19 glass in transept, north window of nave and west window of tower

Fragments of probably medieval stained glass in small west windows of nave

Monuments: brass on south wall of nave, to Walter Gooden (d.l513), Incised stone tablet in nave floor to Elizabeth Clement (d. September 1699), with inscription: "SHORT WAS HUR STAY/THE LONGER IS HUR REST/GOD OFTEN TAKS AWAY/WHOM HE LOVES BEST"

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