Description

TL 85 NE; 5/85

STANNINGFIELD,
CHURCH ROAD

St. Nicholas's Church

(Formerly listed as Church of St. Nicholas)

14.07.55

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Church; mediaeval, restored 1881. Nave, chancel, west tower and south porch.
Flint rubble with limestone dressings. Plaintiled roofs with parapet gables;
the tower roof slated. The nave has C12 core: coursed flint walling with slit-
windows on north and south side; the north doorway (now blocked) with engaged
shafts and weathered crude crocket capitals, semi-circular head with chevron
moulding enriched with flowers on the soffit. The chancel rebuilt c.1300; 2-
light windows in north and south walls and 3-light east window with smoke vent
above, all having very original geometric tracery; blocked south doorway; a low
squint in the south wall, of quatrefoil form within a square; simple arched
piscina. The south nave doorway rebuilt early C14; Two chamfered orders with
flower ornament, hoodmould with ball-flowers and one surviving head-corbel; in
the wall inside the doorway a cusped holy water stoup. Two mid C14 Y-traceried
windows in the nave, one combined with a simple piscina. The chancel arch
rebuilt late C14, with pilasters having moulded capital and base; contemporary
wooden screen having central ogee-arched opening and four lights on each side,
with trefoiled heads on one side and quatrefoiled on the other. C15 tower with
stone-roofed stair-turrent on the south side; large transomed 3-light west
window with angel-corbels having shields; the bell-chamber stage demolished
c.1880 and slated pyramid roof constructed. C15 font, octagonal, limestone
with tracery on the stem; on the bowl the arms of Rokewood, alternating with
panels of tracery. A fine but decayed C15 Doom, painted in black line with
some red background, filling the wall above the chancel arch. During the
restoration of 1881, nave and chancel 7-canted roofs clad with matchboarding
and probably rebuilt. The south porch also rebuilt c.1880, in timber with
cusped bargeboards; the arched door drums are reused from the previous early
C14 porch. In the chancel, the limestone dresser-tomb of Thomas Rookwood,
d.1522; a frieze of fleurons with panels containing quatrefoils and the arms of
Rookwood; elliptical arched canopy and flanking pilasters with angel finials.
Two black marble floor-slabs: to Thomas Rookwood, d.1726; to John and Elizabeth
Gage, d. 1728 and 1759.

Listing NGR: TL8773156346

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17526710

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