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St Nicholas

St Nicholas

Tuxford

Nottinghamshire

C12, C13, C14, C15, clerestory 1473, chancel rebuilt c.1495 by Gunthorpe, chapel restored and widened C18, restored 1811, 1879 and 1893.

Architectural Features

Diagonally buttressed early C14 tower of 2 stages, set on a plinth with late C14 broached spire and 2 gargoyles to the south and north sides.

The west wall of the north aisle has a single restored C15 arched window with 3 arched and cusped lights, hood mould and label stops.

The north wall with single gargoyle and remains of a further single gargoyle is, west of the porch, set on a plinth with band running over and has a single similar window and hood mould.

Set into the east wall is a C14 demi-effigy of a priest in quatrefoil surround and with worn sacramental emblems below.

Theclerestory has 2 gargoyles and 4 similar 3 light windows with continuous hood mould.

Set on a plinth with single C15 gargoyles to the east and west sides.

To the left, in the vestry, is a single gargoyle and a single restored C15 window with 3 arched lights, panel tracery, hood mould and human head label stops.

The south chancel has 4 gargoyles and a continuous sill band broken by the buttresses.

There are 4 C15 arched windows each with 3 arched lights, panel tracery, hood mould and remains of human head label stops.

Under the second window from the left is a moulded arched doorway with incised decoration in the spandrel and C17 panelled door.

The south wall with single gargoyle has 2 similar 3 light windows and hood moulds.

The right niche with a cross, the left with carved remains.

Double wood and glass, traceried door.

The bay to the left of the porch is set on a plinth and has a single C15 arched window with 3 arched and cusped lights, hood mould and label stops.

Clerestory with single carved shields to 3 of the merlons, remains of 3 gargoyles and 4 arched windows each with 3 arched and cusped lights and continuous hood mould.

The C13 north arcade with round columns and responds and moulded capitals.

The early C14 south arcade with octagonal columns, keeled responds and moulded capitals.

C13 double chamfered chancel arch with hood mould, the inner chamfer supported on circular responds and moulded capitals.

North chancel/north chapel late C13 2 bay arcade with double chamfered arches supported on octagonal column and responds with moulded capitals, now blocked by the organ and iron screen.

North wall of the south aisle has some C12 herringbone masonry.

In the south aisle, east wall, is a restored niche with cusped and sub cusped ogee arch over and crocketed finials containing a crude carved effigy of St. Lawrence.

To the right is a human head carved corbel supporting the remains of a C14 seated figure and to the left leading to the rood stair is a small doorway with panelled door.

In the east wall of the chapel is an arched piscina and in the south wall of the vestry the remains of an ogee arched niche now containing earlier C13 memorial decorated with a stylised cross.

The C15 nave roof is supported on grotesque head corbels and carved wooden angels, there are many decorative foliate bosses.

Restored C15 chancel screen with elaborate tracery.

Ashlar font dated 1662 with fine and elaborate conical cover and suspended from the roof a similarly fine and elaborate canopy dated 1673.

Elaborately carved pulpit, c.1876.

Base of a C17 altar table, early C19 altar table.

C18 cupboard in vestry, probably converted from a pulpit.

4 low C17 tressels.

2 Cl7 chests, 2 chairs with elaborately carved backs, tower screen and remaining furnishings C20.

South east aisle window with late C15 figure of St. Lawrence.

In the chapel are 2 large hatchments.

Monuments.

On the south wall of the north aisle is a tablet to William and Ann Sellers, 1790 and on the north wall a damaged memorial to William Dobson, 1673, this has foliate decoration around the inscription and is topped with an angel's head under segmental arch.

The south aisle has a monument to Margaret Bayston, 1753 by Ant.

Ince, this is topped with a broken segmental arch with angel head.

There is a further monument to Mary, Mary and Robert Allwood, 1811, this is surmounted by a broken pediment with urn.

In the north chapel,set into the wall, is a good alabaster monument to Sir John and Dorothea White, 1625.

Consisting of 2 recumbent figures of a gentleman and lady in Jacobean dress the former lying within the arched recess and the latter below and without.

Above the tablets are carved skulls, angel's head, etc. Flanking the recess are single Corinthian columns surmounted by finials.

There is a further monument to Charles Lawrence White, 1814, consisting of a tablet supported on 2 decorative corbels and surmounted by a further tablet, the crown being decorated with a rustic cross, the trappings of battle and an eagle and topped with an urn.

In an arched tomb recess is a recumbent C14 knight with crossed legs and feet resting on dogs.

There is a further C14 recumbent alabaster figure of a lady with feet resting on dogs and a C14 floor slab with a shallow carved figure of a knight and heraldic shields.

There are several C17 and C18 floor slabs.