Church of St Mary and St Nicholas

Heritage listing

Details TF 45 SW 3/116 26.1.67 WRANGLE CHURCH LANE (west side) Church of St. Mary and St. Nicholas G.V. I Parish church. c.1300, C13, C14, c.1345-71, C15, C16, restored 1875-8 by Ewan Christian. Limestone ashlar, lead and slate roofs. Western tower, clerestoried nave, aisles, chancel, south porch. 3 stage tower with stepped corner buttresses, coved cornice and short pinnacles. To belfry stage 2 light openings with cusped heads and wide central mullion. Small west door with chamfered pointed head. Above a 4 light C15 window with panel tracery. North aisle has facetted stair tower and C16 4 light west window, battlemented parapet, corner pinnacles and stepped buttresses. 5 matching C15 5 light windows with cusped heads to the lights and panel tracery. North door with hood mould bearing grotesques. Above a blocked niche. Larger C15 4 light east window. Battlemented clerestory with 6 two light windows. C14 chancel with slate roof has 2 three light reticulated windows and single curvilinear traceried window. Tall 5 light reticulated east window of 1345-71. South chancel wall is similar to north, also with priest's door. South aisle has tall stair turret on east side and a C19 3 light east window. On the south side are 5 three light C15 windows with panel tracery in deeply moulded reveals, and a 4 light west window. The C15 2 storey porch has pointed outer arch with above a 3 light parvise window with cusped heads to the lights, above is a small niche containing a statue. The gabled porch is battlemented with crocketed corner pinnacles and grotesque supporters. C13 inner doorway with paired shafts to the reveals, hobnail annular capitals, dogtooth moulding, deeply moulded pointed arch. Set within this is a trefoil headed surround with dogtoothing and leaf terminals. Interior.

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.