St Nicholas, Cuxwold
St Nicholas, Cuxwold
St Nicholas is a Grade II* parish church on Cuxwold Main Street, Cuxwold, Lincolnshire, in the Diocese of Lincoln. Historic England records a church of about 1100 and the fifteenth century, restored in 1860 by James Fowler.
- Location
- Cuxwold, Lincolnshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Lincolnshire
- City / town
- Cuxwold
- Address
- Cuxwold Road, Cuxwold, Lincolnshire, LN7 6DA
- Postcode
- LN7 6DA
- Built
- c.1100 and C15; restored 1860
- Architect
- James Fowler (1860 restoration)
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Nicholas
- Diocese
- Lincoln
- Parish
- Cuxwold St Nicholas
- Grade
- II*
- Style
- Norman; Victorian restoration
- Materials
- Ironstone rubble, some limestone rubble, ironstone ashlar; slate roofs
- Grid reference
- TA 171 011
- Opening hours
- Open daily, dawn to dusk.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas
Overview
The listing describes ironstone rubble with some limestone rubble and ironstone ashlar, under slate roofs: a west tower, nave, south porch and rectangular chancel. The late eleventh-century west tower has a plinth, a nineteenth-century west lancet and three eleventh-century bell-openings, each a small weathered lancet, with a moulded eleventh-century parapet. The north side of the nave shows round-headed arches of two blocked early twelfth-century arcade bays. Fowler inserted two-light windows with quatrefoils and polychrome voussoirs. An eleventh-century grave marker with four radiating petals is embedded beneath the west window of the north wall.
The interior has an eleventh-century tower arch with a round head and large moulded imposts, and an early twelfth-century pointed, double-chamfered chancel arch. The font of about 1100 is basin-shaped on a pedestal with a scallop pattern round the brim. Roofs and most fittings are nineteenth- or twentieth-century. A large pinnacled ashlar monument commemorates the Thorold family in the 1870s.