St Nicholas, Hinxworth
St Nicholas, Hinxworth
St Nicholas is a Grade II* Church of England parish church on Ashwell Road, Hinxworth, Hertfordshire, in the Diocese of St Albans.
- Location
- Hinxworth, Hertfordshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Hertfordshire
- City / town
- Hinxworth
- Address
- Ashwell Road, Hinxworth, Hertfordshire, SG7 5HD
- Postcode
- SG7 5HD
- Built
- C14 tower and nave; C15 alterations; chancel rebuilt c.1830
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Nicholas
- Diocese
- St Albans
- Parish
- Hinxworth
- Grade
- II*
- Style
- Decorated and Perpendicular, with early C19 chancel
- Materials
- Flint rubble with clunch dressings; chancel chequered red brick with stone dressings
- Grid reference
- TL 237 403
- Opening hours
- Usually open from around 9am to 4pm, every day.
Overview
Historic England records a fourteenth-century tower and battlemented aisleless nave of flint rubble with clunch dressings, altered in the fifteenth century, and a chancel rebuilt around 1830 in chequered red brick with stone dressings. The two-stage west tower has angle buttresses and battlements; the south porch is fifteenth-century. Inside are late-medieval carved wooden corbel figures, canopied niches, a mis-shapen fourteenth-century chancel arch, mid-eighteenth-century pulpit, and brasses including one thought to commemorate John Lambard, Alderman of London (d.1487). The church stands on the site of an earlier building; no priest is recorded at Hinxworth in Domesday. Listed Grade II* on 27 May 1968 (NHLE 1347342); listing NGR TL2373440347.