Listed Building: PARISH CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (108534)

SY 7883, SY 7983 13/76 CHALDON HERRING EAST CHALDON 20.11.59 Parish Church of St Nicholas II Parish Church. C14 origin, partly rebuilt and enlarged in C19. Stone walls - roofs part tiled, part stone slated. Gabled roofs with parapets. Nave, south aisle of three bays, chancel with organ chamber on south, west tower, north porch. Nave, porch and tower C14, chancel, aisle and organ chamber C19. Tower of two stages, the lower stage with angle buttresses. Small slit windows in north and south walls of lower stage - that in south wall built up. Two-light late C14 window in west wall. Upper stage - (belfry) has C14 2-light windows. Parapet with battlements. North porch has moulded C14 arch to doorway. North wall of nave has square-headed C14 windows of two and three lights - part renewed in C19. Chancel, rebuilt in C19 has re-used C14 traceried 3-light window in east wall, and 2-light windows in north and south walls. Internally, all roofs C19, of pine. C12 font, of plain cylindrical form. Several C18 monuments in base of tower. Other internal fittings all C19. Churchyard contains several C18 headstones and one table tomb with ornamental iron railings RCHM Monument 1. Listing NGR: SY7900783111

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