St. Nicholas Church, Ozleworth

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Grade 2* Listed Building. St. Nicholas of Myra - Ozleworth's Anglican parish church, a building of incremental accretions. Stands in a stone-walled circular churchyard of an earlier wooden Saxon chapel. The current building has a cruciform plan with central Norman tower between nave and chancel. Random coursed limestone walls with ashlar quoins. Cotswold stone roofing slates. The oldest part of the church, dating from 1131, is the very rare polygonal tower, an irregular hexagon in plan. The east face of the tower is wider than the west face. The upper stage, probably added circa 1150-1160, has a two-light 'Romanesque' window in each face. Each of these windows has a central shaft with voluted capital and cable-mould necking, set within an enclosing arch with hoodmould and chamfered abaci. The original short nave and chancel were added in the 13th C. The nave's north doorway was blocked in the 15th C. The nave is awkwardly wider than the tower; the roof ridge collides with a window on the tower's west face. The nave was not envisaged in the 12th C when the original tower was the nave of a small chapel with east apse, west narthex and three pointed-arch windows, one of which survives on the tower's south-west face. The chancel was extended in the 14th C with a trefoil head priest's door and a Dec style east window. Rev. W.H. Lowder of Liverpool restored the church, 1873-74. He extended the nave westwards, adding buttresses, and largely rebuilt the south porch.

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