St Nicolas' Church, Guildford

Heritage listing

Details This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 31 March 2025 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards SU 9949SW 7/86 GUILDFORD BURY STREET Church of St. Nicolas (Formerly listed as Church of St. Nicholas, HIGH STREET) 1/5/53 GV II* Church. Loseley chapel C15, the remainder built in 1870-75 (consecrated April 1876) to the designs of S.S Teulon, but executed by Ewan Christian. Tower lantern designed by Stanley Gage Livock and added in 1951. Flint rubble walls on the Loseley Chapel, coursed. Bargate blocks on the remainder with aluminium roofs; ribbed copper roof over teak lantern. Almost cruciform plan with square crossing tower, apsidal chancel and aisled nave with clearstorey, and Loseley Chapel forming south transept arm. North porch across angle with the west front and further porch to south. Three stage tower with ringing chamber over the crossing vault and the bellchamber above that. Quoined angles and gabled offset pier buttresses to lower stages. Octagonal stair turret to the south-east angle under octagonal lantern with stone parapet and lancet fenestration. Corbel table on upper stage of tower with two arched tall windows in ashlar surrounds on each face, the openings filled with scalloped-ended louvres. Canted apse to east of tower over crypt with offset buttresses and two-light and roundel plate-tracery windows on linking sill course and under hood moulds. Small lancet type windows in crypt below. On north wall of apse is a rainwater head dated 1849, from the period when Henry Woodyer worked on the previous church. North transept gable end has large plate-tracery, three-light and roundel window on sill string course and under hood moulding. One transomed leaded window below with pointed-arched door to side. Pentice

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.