Architectural Features
Crypt has 2 blocked doors in the north wall, both in C16 arches, entrance to right with chamfered lintel, glazed doors
Apse has tall raised-and-fielded panels and central pediment with delicate scrolled decoration within, on Roman Doric pilasters, frieze with triglyphs and foliate decoration to metopes, the whole curved around apse
Wine-glass pulpit has similar arcade, stairs up have rod-on-vase balusters.
All windows have keystones, deep reveals and mainly with splayed sills, those to east end have stained glass in memory of the First World War, otherwise with opaque glass and stained quatrefoils to margins.
At south-east vestry has 6-raised-and-fielded-panel door, fireplace has shelf on brackets and late Victorian tiles.
The design of the tower is taken from Gibbs 'Book of Architecture', which came out in 1728, Cruikshank states that: 'perhaps the most impressive of Gibbs-derived towers is that sported by St Nicholas, Worcester, which is based almost exactly on a published unbuilt version for St Martin's(-in-the-Field).' A key streetscape feature, occupying an important corner site at the junctions of The Cross, St Nicholas Street, Angel Street and Foregate.
SO8455 : Looking across Foregate Street towards Angel Street