St Nicholas's Church, Fisherton Delamere

St Nicholas's Church
Location Fisherton Delamere, Wiltshire, England
Coordinates 51°08′56″N 2°00′08″W / 51.14889°N 2.00222°W / 51.14889; -2.00222Coordinates: 51°08′56″N 2°00′08″W / 51.14889°N 2.00222°W / 51.14889; -2.00222
Built 14th century
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official name: Church of St. Nicholas
Designated 23 March 1960[1]
Reference no. 1183381
Location of St Nicholas's Church in Wiltshire

St Nicholas's Church in Fisherton Delamere, Wiltshire, England was built in the 14th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building,[1] and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.[2] It was declared redundant on 1 June 1982, and was vested in the Trust on 30 October 1984.[3]

The church, which was built in a chequerboard pattern of flint and stone, sits on a hill overlooking the River Wylye. It was built on the site of a Norman church in the 14th century and was substantially rebuilt in the 19th century.[2] In the 1830s and 1860s John Davis organised the work including the demolition and rebuilding of the chancel under the supervision of W. Hardwick, a Warminster surveyor.[4] It has a two-stage tower which is supported by diagonal buttresses.[1]

Inside the church is a Minton tiled reredos which may date from the 1861 rebuilding.[5] The screen was deisgned by Frederick Charles Eden and installed in 1912 while carrying out other work on the church. Because of local objections the screen was never painted.[2] The 12th century cylindrical font dates from the 12th century.[1]

William Herbert Allen (1863–1943) a notable English landscape watercolour artist whose career spanned more than 50 years from the 1880s to the 1940s is buried in the churchyard.[6]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Historic England, "Church of St. Nicholas, Fisherton Delamere (1183381)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 9 April 2015
  2. 1 2 3 St Nicholas' Church, Fisherton Delamere, Wiltshire, Churches Conservation Trust, retrieved 2 April 2011
  3. ↑ Diocese of Salisbury: All Schemes (PDF), Church Commissioners/Statistics, Church of England, 2011, p. 5, retrieved 2 April 2011
  4. ↑ "Fisherton de la Mere". A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 8: Warminster, Westbury and Whorwellsdown Hundreds. British History Online. 1965. Retrieved 9 October 2010.
  5. ↑ Pearson, Lynn. "Wiltshire" (PDF). Lynn Pearson. Retrieved 9 October 2010.
  6. ↑ "William Herbert Allen (1863-1943)". Murriarti. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
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