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St Nicholas

Sutton St Nicholas

Herefordshire

C12 with C13

Architectural Features

C14 additions, restored in mid-C19.

Sandstone, slate roof to nave, concrete tiles to chancel and stone slates to porch.

C13 west tower, four-bay C12 nave, three-bay C13 chancel, large C14 south transept, late C19 south vestry, rebuilt C14 north porch.

the east one, probably C13 or C14 has a triangular head

the west, perhaps C12, has a segmental head.

Chancel: C13

C14 lancets, the east window is a pair of trefoil- headed lancets, probably late C14

blocked C13 priests' door with sundial incised on east jamb, between two lancets on south side.

South transept: large C14 south window of two lights with trefoiled heads, above are two corbel heads beneath a stone ledge.

North porch: perhaps C14 or C15, much restored, trusses comprising two sets of moulded arch braces support- ing two tie-beams, moulded to match at their junctions.

Entrance from north through square-headed chamfered doorway, probably C14.

Interior: the nave is separated from south transept by a C14 arcade consisting of one octagonal column supporting two 2-centred arches springing from ground level at north and south

C13 two-centred chamfered chancel arch and tower arch.

that of south transept has four C17 moulded brackets, one to each corner, which presently support nothing.

Restored chancel screen, probably C15 or C16 has linenfold panels to bottom, open ogee heads and tracery to top of three bays to each side of entrance.

C17 communion table with turned Doric column legs and carved top rails.

Three piscinas all C14, two with trefoiled heads and ball-flower enrichments, foiled drains, one in splay of south-east window of the chancel, another in south-east corner of the nave

the third, without ball-flowers, is in the south wall of the south transept, adjacent in east wall, a large corbel with cavetto mouldings, perhaps C16.

Early C17 oak hexagonal pulpit and reading desk with panelled sides.

Font has C12 round bowl and mid-C19 stem and base.

Small late C17 communion table to west of chancel screen has bobbin-baluster legs. (RCHM, Vol II, p 178).