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St Nicholas

St Nicholas

Henley-in-Arden

Warwickshire

Mid C12 with C15 tower

Architectural Features

some probably late C16 rebuilding and 1865 restoration by Thomas Garner

steeply pitched old tile roofs

C12 round-headed east window, with shafts, and mouldings including zig-zag to arch

north side has large off-set buttress between 2 C12 round-headed windows with square-cut openings

south side has pilaster buttress with to left a 2-light late C13 window with double-chamfered shaped arch

to right an interrupted string course and the jamb and part of arch to a C12 window

Nave has north wall rebuilt inside former wall-line with 2 string courses, lower one reused C12 with some diapering, upper one marks narrowing of wall

2 C14 double-chamfered straight-headed windows of 3 and 2 trefoil-headed lights to east of large off-set buttress

plain round-headed C12 entrance has door with strap hinges

re-set C12 entrance in forward break has 4 orders with richly moulded arch and C19 door with enriched strap hinges

C15 3-light transomed west window has worn hood with stops, crockets and fleuron

INTERIOR: chancel has C19 quadripartite vaulted roof on original piers with scalloped or interlaced capitals, damaged C13 piscina to east wall and aumbrys to north and south

restored C12 chancel arch of 3 orders has richly moulded arch including much zig-zag

C19 half-arch to north side reveals part covered by C16 wall

Nave has 4-bay C16 or C17 roof with 4 tie-beam and collar trusses with queen struts, braced collars and coupled rafters

signs of blocked C12 window to west end of south wall

chancel has altar rail on enriched iron supports and some encaustic tiles

nave has some C15 or C16 bench ends with arms and round, flat, finials, other benches have C19 copies, with numbered finials and candle standards

plain C15 octagonal font with moulded underside

C19 Norman-style lectern

STAINED GLASS: east window by Holland probably c1865

west window with figures dated 1875

most other windows by Morris & Co c1864-5. MONUMENTS: some C18 and C19 wall tablets to tower including William Welch, d.1777, black sarcophagus-shaped tablet in white setting with coloured marble to apron, fluted pilasters, cornice and swan-neck pediment with central urn and outer gadrooned urns

William Ellis, d.1848, Norman-style round-headed tablet. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 88-9