---
title: "St Nicholas, Cuxwold"
description: "Located in Cuxwold, Lincolnshire. Built c.1100 and C15; restored 1860. Diocese of Lincoln. Grade II*. Norman; Victorian restoration style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Church of England","Lincolnshire","Cuxwold","Grade II*","Norman","James Fowler","Diocese of Lincoln"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/st-nicholas-cuxwold"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T01:33:12.154Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-08T18:59:28.552Z"
location: "Cuxwold, Lincolnshire"
country: "England"
county: "Lincolnshire"
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"
dedications: ["Nicholas"]
diocese: "Lincoln"
grade: "II*"
style: "Norman; Victorian restoration"
materials: "Ironstone rubble, some limestone rubble, ironstone ashlar; slate roofs"
openingHours: "Open daily, dawn to dusk."
parish: "Cuxwold St Nicholas"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165350"
gridReference: "TA 171 011"
accessNotes: "Level access to the main areas"
---

# 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.

## 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.

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1165350](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165350)