St Nicholas Church - High Street, Strood, Kent, UK
N 51° 23.761 E 000° 29.588
31U E 325607 N 5696847
The church was built during the Victorian era and has a fairly traditional layout with a large main building and a single tall square tower. Its main use, today, seems to be devoted to community projects.
Waymark Code: WMGVAD
Location: South East England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 04/11/2013
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The UK
Atraction website tells us:
"The church of
St Nicholas with St Mary can be found at the top end of Strood High Street. The
church was built during the Victorian era and has a fairly traditional layout
with a large main building and a single tall square tower. The church records
date back to 1565 although the present building was built much later. Today’s
church is busy working with the local community with a wide variety of outreach
programs including childcare activities and also being home to the City of
Rochester Brass band."
The British
Listed Buildings website tells us about this Grade
II listed building:
"Former parish church, now partly a
day centre and partly a chapel. W tower C14 much renewed, body of church 1812 by
Robert Smirke. Late-C19 and late-C20 additions to N, the latter for offices to
day centre. Coursed rubble ragstone, Welsh slate roof, tower with flint and
ragstone banding. The interior has been divided, but the 3 E bays of the nave
still used as a chapel. W tower, undivided nave, shallow sanctuary, S porch.
Tower: no buttresses; the round-headed W doorway and blocked window above do not
look Norman. The flint and ragstone banding decoration is normally taken to be
C14. 3 stages and battlements; quoining. Triple lancet belfry openings. Smirke's
nave, 5 bays, round-headed 2-light windows with transoms; renewed stone parapet;
shallow pedimented sanctuary with 4 round-headed lancets and a roundel contained
within a superordinate arch; very wide angle pilaster strips. S porch, also
pedimented, partly glazed doors and fanlight with glazing bars. 2 late C20
glazed doors punched into nave (S wall, to W) to serve day centre. Interior:
Perpendicular tower arch. Sanctuary ceiling and arch with Edwardian paintings of
angels on decorative background, oil on plaster. Earlier, Victorian, stained
glass to E and side windows."
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