St Nicolas' Church

PLAN: Chancel, nave, west tower, and on the north side a shallow C16 chapel and organ chamber and vestry of 1880-1. EXTERIOR: Late Norman nave with W front with late Norman doorway with three orders of shafts flanked by blind arcading

INTERIOR: Chancel separated from nave by broad probably C14 chancel arch

Reset within This is a late C14 carved crucifixion

Benches also of 1880-1. Fixtures and fittings include a pulpit of 1628 reset at the south-east corner of the nave and a C15 font with broad stem and bowl with quatrefoils

Stubby C16 chapel on north side of east end of nave with reset memorial of 1684 to John and Jane Blacknall (both d.1625), and late C19 stalls and wallpaintings

The church saw considerable enrichment (new windows and tower) in the C14 and C15

Nicholas is a complex and architecturally interesting church of the C12 and later whose history was intimately bound up with that of Abingdon Abbey

While the core of the building is of the late C12 extensive improvement programmes were undertaken in the C14 and C15

It has good collections of fixtures and fittings and of monuments