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St Nicholas

Kemerton

Worcestershire

Early C13, altered

Architectural Features

extended in C14

C15, rebuilt (except for the west tower) from 1846 - 50, by R C Carpenter for Thomas Thorp, Archdeacon of Bristol.

two lower stages are early C18, belfry stage and diagonal west corner buttresses with offsets added late C15.

The octagonal stone font and timber pulpit are ornately carved, there is a large Parish chest in the south aisle and at the nave crossing hangs a corona by Hardman.

Memorials: in the north wall of the chancel is a tomb recess with a marble mosaic memorial to Thomas Thorp, died 1877.

Also early C19 memorial to Anna Parsons and numerous C18 and C19 ledger slabs in the north aisle.

Glass: the chancel glass is by Willement

also some glass by Hardman in the north aisle.

The rebuilding of the medieval church was highly controversial particularly as Thorp supported the Oxford Movement and established a high-church tradition at Kemerton. (VCH, Vol 8, p 218-9 (Glos)