More information : [ST 3160 5838] St. Nicholas's Church [TU]. (1)
Uphill: Old St. Nicholas. The church is essentially Norman with
Perpendicular tower arches and top. The nave has been recently
re-roofed; the church had been partly in ruins since the
building of a new parish church in 1844. (2-3)
Services are occasionally held in old St. Nicholas's Church.
The nave is open to the sky but the chancel is roofed and the
fabric of the building kept in repair. (4)
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Old Church of Saint Nicholas
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Norman church remodelled in later Middle Ages; consists of nave,
chancel, and central tower. Limestone rubble, stone slab roof
over chancel. Nave (unroofed): 2 Norman doorways with carving
in tympani: ("Circle intersected by 4 lobed motif drawn in one
line" - Pevsner). Porch rebuilt 1904. Central tower: 3 stages,
clasping buttresses, Norman window on side, parapet of pierced
quatrefoils in lozenges, is mostly modern replacement of
Perpendicular work. Stair turret with spirelet to NE. Chancel:
2 Norman windows on N side and blocked 2 centre arched doorway on
S side. Interior: 2 Perpendicular tower arches. High landscape
value, overlooking village and Axe estuary. (5)
There is a sundial carved on the East side of a plain tympanum set over a blocked door in the south wall. The main subdibvisions give an octaval system. There are othe dials at the church, one to the west of the tympanum, and another on the window head on the South face of the tower. This one seems the only case for a pre-Conquest dial and may be Saxo-Norman. (6) |