---
title: "St Nicholas, Denston"
description: "Located in Denston, Suffolk. Built Late C14 west tower; remainder late C15 on a C12 site. Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. Grade I. Perpendicular style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Church of England","Suffolk","Denston","Grade I","Perpendicular","Flint","Diocese of St Edmundsbury"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/st-nicholas-denston"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T01:34:04.719Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-09T12:30:02.233Z"
location: "Denston, Suffolk"
country: "England"
county: "Suffolk"
town: "Denston"
address: "The Green, Denston, Suffolk, CB8 8PP"
postcode: "CB8 8PP"
built: "Late C14 west tower; remainder late C15 on a C12 site"
denomination: "Church of England"
dedications: ["Nicholas"]
diocese: "St Edmundsbury and Ipswich"
grade: "I"
style: "Perpendicular"
materials: "Random flint with stone dressings and solid stone buttresses"
website: "http://bansfieldbenefice.org.uk/denston/"
openingHours: "Sorry, there are no regular opening times for this church."
parish: "Denston St Nicholas"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1031706"
gridReference: "TL 760 530"
accessNotes: "Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby"
---

# St Nicholas, Denston

St Nicholas is a Grade I parish church on Top Green in Denston, Suffolk, in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich.

## Overview

Historic England records a random flint church with stone dressings and solid stone buttresses, built on the site of a twelfth-century church. The west tower is late fourteenth century; the remainder is late fifteenth century. In 1475 Sir John Howard and Sir John Broughton obtained letters patent from Edward IV to found a perpetual chantry. The tower has diagonal buttresses and a castellated parapet. Nave, chancel (continuous, without a break) and aisles have castellated parapets and panel-traceried windows. An octagonal staircase tower on the north side led to the rood loft.

The south porch has a fan vault, an external canopied niche, and a castellated holy-water stoup. The fifteenth-century south door has traceried ornament in the upper panels. The interior has been little altered since the seventeenth century: a seven-bay chancel and nave with an original arch-braced cambered tie-beam roof and a cornice carved with lions, hounds, hares and harts. Stalls for chantry priests and benches for parishioners survive, with misericords and a font carved with the Seven Sacraments and the Crucifixion.

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1031706](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1031706)
- [British Listed Buildings: Church of St Nicholas](https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101031706-church-of-st-nicholas-denston)