Architectural Features
Early C16, restored 1859.
Lead roofs to all but the chancel, vestry and porch which have plain tiles.
EXTERIOR: Diagonal buttressed tower, the south west buttress with C18 memorial, stair turret to the north east corner.
Embattled with single corner squat finials and 2 gargoyles to each side apart from the west.
TF4325 : Lutton, St. Nicholas's Church: Tower gargoyles
Above to the west, north and south sides are single irregular trefoils with panelled spandrels and Tudor hood moulds.
Continuous Tudor hood mould.
To the right is a single ashlar memorial decorated with angel's head.
To the left is a chamfered pointed arched doorway and on the far left and set high a single ashlar memorial of 1770 decorated with angels' heads and drapery and set under an open pediment.
To the left is a decorative C18 ashlar memorial.
Tower with pointed arched aumbry and pointed segmental arched doorway with C17 plank door to stair turret.
1702 hexagonal pulpit with stair case, the shaped and carved panels further decorated with marquetry, given by Dr. Busby of Westminster School.
C17 alms chest.
Aisle roofs with C16 moulded beams.
South chancel wall with memorial to Austine Daniell with flanking damaged fluted pilasters and topped with broken pediment containing cartouche.
HISTORY:By the C8 Lutton had become an established Anglo-Saxon settlement by the sea.
During the C13 reclamation from the receding sea provided fertile land for grazing and agriculture.
Early industry in Lutton also included fishing, as recorded in the Domesday Book of 1068.
There is evidence that a 'parochial chapel' was built somewhere in the village during the C12 and it would appear that land gifted around one hundred years later provided the site on which the present church stands.
The church is of early C16 date, and underwent restoration in 1859.
SOURCES: D Secker, 'A Brief Account of the Parish Church of St. Nicholas Lutton' REASONS FOR DESIGNATION DECISION Church of St Nicholas is listed at Grade I for the following principal reasons: * It is a well-preserved C16 parish church built of brick. * There are believed to be less than 150 examples of pre-Reformation church brickwork in England, many of which are individual components such as an added or rebuilt aisle or chancel, rather than the complete building.