Church

St Nicholas, Nottingham

St Nicholas, Nottingham

St Nicholas is a Grade II* parish church on Maid Marian Way, Nottingham, in the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham: a late seventeenth-century rebuild after Civil War destruction, with Georgian aisles.

Location
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Country
England
County
Nottinghamshire
City / town
Nottingham
Address
79 Maid Marian Way, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG1 6AE
Postcode
NG1 6AE
Built
1671–82; east end 1699; south aisle 1756; north aisle 1783
Denomination
Church of England
Dedication
Nicholas
Diocese
Southwell and Nottingham
Parish
Nottingham St Nicholas
Grade
II*
Style
Late seventeenth-century parish church with Georgian aisles
Materials
Red brick with ashlar dressings; copper and slate roofs
Grid reference
SK 571 395
Opening hours
Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.
Access
Accessible toilets in church. Level access to the main areas. Non-accessible toilets in church

Overview

Historic England lists a parish church of 1671–82, replacing a church destroyed during the Civil War. The east end is dated 1699; the south aisle was added in 1756 and the north aisle in 1783. The interior was remodelled in 1863; the tower was restored in 1906 and the chancel in 1959. The fabric is red brick with ashlar dressings and copper and slate roofs, with plinths, quoins and parapets. The plan comprises chancel, vestry, organ chamber, nave, aisles and a three-stage unbuttressed west tower. Aisles have round-arched three-light windows with keystones. The nave interior has four-bay arcades of Tuscan columns and a scissor-braced roof.

The chancel has a coffered elliptical arch and an eighteenth-century two-panel ceiling with dentil borders. Fittings include an inlaid octagonal wooden pulpit of 1783 and a reused late seventeenth-century communion rail. Memorials include a tablet of 1717 and obelisk tablets of 1739 and 1749. The church is open Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm, with accessible toilets and level access to the main areas.

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