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St Nicholas Parish Church near the roundabout on Vicarage Street and Church Street in Nuneaton, Warwickshire.

The church is Grade I listed.

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   NUNEATON AND BEDWORTH CHURCH STREET
   SP39SE (North-east side)
   Nuneaton
   2/45 Church of St. Nicholas
   06/12/47
   GV I

   Church. c.1340. Tower C15; clerestory, nave arcades and nave and aisle roofs
   late C15. Chancel north chapel and arcade partly rebuilt early C16. Chancel
   extended and chancel arch inserted 1852-1853 by Ewan Christian. Vestry extended
   early C20. Ashlar and regular coursed sandstone. C19 plain-tile chancel roof
   with some fish-scale tiles and ridge cresting, and lead roofs with moulded
   cornice and embattled parapets. Coped gable parapets. Aisled nave, chancel and
   chancel chapels, west tower, north vestry. Mostly Perpendicular style. 4-bay
   chancel, 4-bay nave. Splay and moulded plinths throughout. Chancel has angle
   buttresses of 2 offsets, with steep gablets, mouldings and carving, and
   crocketed and gableted pinnacles. 5-light east window has reticulated tracery
   with hood mould and head stops. Similar north and south buttresses, but without
   pinnacles. Moulded frieze. North side has 3-light window. Rainwater heads dated
   1853. North chapel and aisle in one. East diagonal buttress of 2 offsets.
   3-light east window has curvilinear tracery. First and second bays have 3-light
   windows with simple tracery, and small shouldered doorway between. Third bay has
   2-light window with reticulated tracery. Large buttress. Fourth bay has
   straight-headed window. Vestry adjoins next two bays. Diagonal buttresses. East
   doorway has hood mould and plank door. North east corner has external stack with.
   octagonal shaft. 3-light uncusped west window. Aisle north west doorway of 3
   moulded orders has C19 plank door. Both aisles have 2-light west windows with,
   reticulated tracery. 8-bay clerestory of 3-light windows with continuous
   mouldings. South chapel of 4 narrow bays. Low diagonal buttress with ogee niche,
   and south buttresses. Large 3-light east window has renewed reticulated tracery.
   To south first and third 3-light windows are set high up. Second bay has early
   C14 window of 3 stepped cusped lancets with roll mouldings. 2-light south east
   window has reticulated tracery. Both windows have hood moulds with head stops.
   Moulded cornice has remains of carvings. South west corner has canted stair
   projection with high plinth and small Tudor-arch door in right side. Lower 4-bay
   aisle has diagonal and south buttresses of 3 moulded offsets. Western bay has
   elaborately moulded doorway with ballflower decoration, inner 4-centred arched
   doorway, and blind tracery in tympanum. C19 double-leaf doors. Short 3-light
   window above has sill course forming hood mould of doorway. Other bays have
   large 3-light windows. Hood moulds with return stops throughout. Tower of 3
   stages with splay string courses. Diagonal buttresses of 6 offsets. West doorway
   of 2 broad-chamfered orders has C19 double-leaf doors with decorative ironwork.
   3-light window above has hood mould with head stops. Second stage has round
   clock face with moulded stone frame, set in moulded stone star-shaped panel.
   Third stage has 2-light bell-chamber openings with largely renewed tracery, and
   hood moulds. Moulded cornice and embattled parapet with crocketed pinnacles,
   renewed to south west. Octagonal south east turret rises above parapet. Interior
   is entirely plastered and whitewashed. Chancel has 3-bay north arcade of 2
   moulded orders, of varying widths. Western arch is higher, and has outer
   segmental pointed arch and different mouldings. C14 south arcade of 2 wide,
   shallow, chamfered orders, the outer continuous. Head corbel to south east. C19
   wagon roof has painted chamfered arched braces and boarding, moulded wall plate
   and corbels. C19 chancel arch of 2 chamfered orders has spandrels with pierced
   tracery. Nave has 4-bay arcades of 2 orders with piers of moulded lozenge
   section; mouldings continue up to frame clerestory windows. Tower arch of 3
   broad-chamfered orders. Nave and aisles have Perpendicular painted, moulded and
   panelled roofs with carved bosses; principal bosses are gilded. South chapel has
   corbel head in east wall. Fittings: C19 octagonal stone font and stalls;
   octagonal wood pulpit dated 1902. Carved oak reredos dated 1927. South chapel
   has piscina with crocketed ogee arch combined with a credence shelf. Vaulted
   sedile has nodding ogee crocketed canopy and pinnacles. Monuments: chancel has
   chamfered segmental-pointed tomb recess in north wall. Alabaster chest tomb of
   Sir Harmaduke Constable, 1560, has recumbent effigy and shield panels. Wall
   monuments: north east: William Craddock, 1833. Neoclassical, with draped urn and
   panel. By the Patent Works, Westminster. North west: Mary Combes 1668. Composite
   columns with sections of a pediment, achievement of arms, and shaped raised
   panel. Swags and skulls. Predella has medallion of a head. South east: Reverend
   John Ryder 1791. Broken pediment with consoles and flaming urn, and oval panel
   with palms. South: Anthony Trotman 1662 and Abigail 1703. Large and ambitious,
   with 2 busts on inscribed pedestal. Architectural frame of pilaster panels with
   painted cartouches of arms and large moulded entablature with drapery. Cartouche
   of arms with 4 gilt-winged heads, fruit, and putti to left and right. Predella
   has corpse in a winding sheet.
   (VCH: Warwickshire, Vol IV, p168-170; Buildings of England: Warwickshire,
   p363-364)

   Listing NGR: SP3656091658

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