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Latitude: 49.9579 / 49°57'28"N
Longitude: -6.3345 / 6°20'4"W
OS Eastings: 89223
OS Northings: 15417
OS Grid: SV892154
Mapcode National: GBR BXRS.M9D
Mapcode Global: VGYBY.5B14
Plus Code: 8CXMXM58+45
Entry Name: Church of St Nicholas
Listing Date: 14 December 1992
Last Amended: 14 December 1995
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1328849
English Heritage Legacy ID: 62548
ID on this website: 101328849
Location: St Nicholas's Church, Dolphin Town, Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, TR24
County: Isles of Scilly
Civil Parish: Tresco
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall
Church of England Parish: Isles of Scilly
Church of England Diocese: Truro
Tagged with: Church building
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Church of St Nicholas
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Church. 1877-79 by Thomas Algernon Dorrien-Smith as a memorial for his uncle Augustus Smith who died in 1871. Squared and coursed granite; stone-coped slate roof. Cruciform plan with south-east tower.
Three-bay nave has west rose window with central quatrefoil to gable end and chamfered lancet windows. Similar lancets to transepts and two-bay chancel, which has three lancets to east end; gabled north porch with inner and outer chamfered pointed-arched doorways with decorative hinges to doors.
Tower, of three stages, has similar doorway and lancets and chamfered four-centred and louvred belfry windows with chamfered string course and parapet; pyramidal roof.
Interior: open arch-braced roof set on stone corbels. Marble reredos, given in memory of Walter M.Smith Dorrien d.1924; decorative encaustic tile sanctuary floor; pitch-pine pews, Gothic-style chancel rail and pulpit; coloured marble font on quatrefoil base. C19 and C20 wall memorials to the Dorrien-Smith family. Commemorative plaque in the porch records the names of William Nicholls, head carpenter, and Thomas Chudleigh, head mason.
Fine stained glass windows by C E Kempe include three east lancets with St. Andrew, Crucifixion and St. Nicholas and highly-coloured west window with angels and bells. North transept window by Tower, a pupil and partner of Kempe.
Listing NGR: SV8922315417
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