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St Nicholas

Architectural Features

C14.

Plain tile roofs.

Tower: later C12, with C16 or later belfry.

C13 or C14.

Nave: later C12 or early C13.

4-light C19 west window in a C13 style, with hoodmould.

2-light later C14 south window between porch and tower, breaking through string course

Pointed arched C14 inner doorway with continuous ovolo moulding, broach stops, and roll-and-fillet hoodmould.

Chancel: later C12 or C13, restored in C19.

Three C19 south windows and 3-light C19 east window in a C13 style.

C19 north lancet, and blocked C13 pointed lancet under eaves, surrounded by C12 or C13 uncoursed stone rubble.

North chancel chapel: C14 or later.

North nave chapel: C14, restored in C19.

Nave: north elevation: C13 window of 2 trefoil-headed lights without overall architrave, above string course, between chapel and north doorway.

Moulded pointed- arched later C14 north doorway with attached shafts with bell capitals and bases and hoodmould with carved heads to label stops.

Boarded medieval door.

Interior: structure: broad C14 doubly- chamfered pointed arch with semi-octagonal columns with moulded capitals and bases, between nave and nave chapel.

Fittings: octagonal early C14 font bowl with tooled verges, and chamfered base carved with frowning face, two calves heads and a leaf.

Monuments: monument on south wall of chancel to Levinus Buffkin of Gore Court, d.1622.

Monument on south wall of chancel to Thomas Fludd of Gore Court, d.1688.

Brass on same wall to Thomas Hendley, d.1590

Monument on north wall of chancel to John Hendley, d.1676.

Erected by wife in 1678.

Monument on north wall of chancel to William and Dorothea Henley of Gore Court, d.1762 and 1785.

Monument on north wall of north chancel chapel to Bowyer Hendley, d.1742.

Monument on wall of north chancel chapel to Elizabeth Hendley, d.1697.