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BUILDING RESTORATION RECORDING:ST. NICHOLAS CHURCHTINGRITHBEDFORDSHIRE |
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Archaeological Services & Consultancy Ltd unpublished report series
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Report (in Series)
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Abstract: |
Between July 2006 and February 2007 Archaeological Services and Consultancy Ltd (ASC) carried out building restoration recording of the tower and cellar of St. Nicholas Church, Tingrith, Bedfordshire to meet the requirements of a Faculty from the Chancellor of the Diocese of St Albans.Apart from the 19th century vestry, the present church dates from the later 15th century. That it replaces an earlier church is indicated by the documentary evidence for an incumbent in Tingrith in 1215.The tower is of three stages with diagonal buttresses up to the belfry, cinquefoil belfry windows, an iron clock on the south elevation and a door and a Perpendicular-style window in the west elevation. It is built of roughly dressed and ashlared ironstone with Totternhoe Clunch dressing. It was restored using the same building stone but with the addition of Stoke Ground (Lincolnshire Limestone) for the hood moulds. The tower appears to have been of a single plan and is likely to have been constructed over a consecutive span of 10 years or so. The only apparent significant alteration had been to the west window, which was rebuilt in the 19th century, probably to the same Perpendicular design. The entire church was heavily restored in the 1840s and a second new central heating system was installed in 1868. A brick lined cellar, which was cleared during the current restoration programme, had been constructed in the west tower to accommodate the boiler during one of these programmes of work. |
Author: |
Karin Semmelmann
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Publisher: |
Archaeological Services & Consultancy Ltd
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Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Central Bedfordshire HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2007
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St. Nicholas Church, Tingrith, Bedfordshire |
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TINGRITH |
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Central Bedfordshire |
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Bedfordshire |
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England |
Grid Reference: 501730, 232420 (Easting, Northing)
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archaeol2-30727 |
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A4 binding with clear plasic cover (beige beneath) with a black spine
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Created Date: |
24 Nov 2016 |