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The north transept gable end is embellished by a large plate-tracery, three-light-plus-roundel window on a sill and under a hood moulding. The chancel itself, facing east, is apsidal (hemi-spherical as to the upper part and rounded as to the lower) with vaulting. It has a marble floor and mosaics.
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eave. Above immediately is guttering of equal height before the ascent of a long hipped slate roof surmounted by a simple yellow stone cross on the west end. Its north lower, long vestry and side aisle with west-facing main door is between the height of the main building culminating in a transept
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matching the width of the square porch tower to which it joins and running equally to the south where it forms the vestry. A square belfry tower with flagpole surmount the chancel in lighter stone than all but the northern additions.
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Venn. Alumni Oxonienses; the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714; Their Parentage, Birthplace, and Year of Birth, With a Record of Their Degrees at
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is the ruined Grade 1 listed St Catherine’s Chapel dating c. 1300, an enigmatic building with royal and pilgrimage connections.
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The west end has a straight gable end excepting tall, shallow outside buttresses in light-stone relief. It has matching
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window is above. The church is built from the south and west Surrey yellow ironstone-sandstone (
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St Nicolas’ church (spelt ‘Nicholas’ until the early 20th century) is on the west bank of the
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and St Francis Littleton have reduced the size of St Nicolas’ parish. The parish includes
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and Littleton. During the last century, the creation of the new parishes of All Saints in
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windows consisting of tall close lancet lights and a small roundel above. A five-light
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The parish is one of the three ancient parishes of Guildford borough, together with
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The building is of cut stone and some mortar-infused rubblestone and is
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in the middle category of statutory listing, Grade II* chiefly for its
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Church of England Guildford postcode GU2 4JX and rest of parish map
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St Nicolas' Church, Guildford

51°14′05″N 0°34′39″W / 51.23466°N 0.57747°W / 51.23466; -0.57747
OS grid reference
SU994492
Guildford
Surrey
England
Denomination
Church of England
Churchmanship
High Church

Parish church
Dedication
Saint Nicolas
Consecrated
Architect(s)
Samuel Sanders Teulon
Ewan Christian
Style
Victorian Gothic
Province
Canterbury
Diocese
Guildford
Archdeaconry
Deanery
Guildford
Parish

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