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St Nicholas

Chadlington

Oxfordshire

Late C12 (and possibly earlier), C13 and C15

Architectural Features

C19 steep-roofed chancel in Decorated style has a 3-light east window with reticulated tracery, and two 2-light windows to north, all with carved head stops

to left of the porch is a plain C13 double lancet

C15 porch has a moulded outer arch and shelters the restored late-C12 south doorway with a round arch of 3 chamfered orders on jambs of a detached shaft flanked by attached shafts, all with moulded capitals

Tall late-C14 transept has a 4-light early-Perpendicular window to east and a 3-light window to north, both with transoms in the tracery

C15 clerestory has square-headed traceried windows of 2 and 3 lights with large carved head stops

Deep C15 parapets to nave, aisles and transept also have carved heads and gargoyles including a fine "green man". 2 lower stages of the unbuttressed tower may be contemporary with the late-C12/early-C13 third stage which has pairs of trefoil-headed openings under crude labels, but they could be earlier

second stage has a round-headed lancet, but 2-light west window is C14

C15 top stage has 2-light traceried bell-chamber openings, and carries a crenellated parapet with crocketed corner pinnacles and gargoyles

Chancel arch and the low arch leading to the transept are C15, but the remains of a Romanesque window survive above the latter, and the arch incorporates C13 shafts with moulded bases and capitals

4-bay south arcade and remaining 3 bays of north arcade arm C13, with circular columns, moulded capitals and arches of 2 chamfered orders

Both aisles have C15 piscinae

C15-style nave roof has traceried kingpost trusses, and rises from carved corbels

Fittings are C19, except for a C17 communion table with baluster legs, and a chest with arcaded front

C19 stained glass in chancel

early-C20 glass in transept

Monuments include a tablet flanked by scrolls and cherub, bearing an armorial cartouche between flaming urns, which commemorates Joseph Rollinson (d.1699), and a marble wall monument by Ricketts of Gloucester to Sir William and Lady Catherine Osbaldeston (d.1740) and 1737) with an urn and serpent against a black obelisk. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: pp524/5)

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