Upper: Current office entrance
Photos: C Myers, St Nicholas Center
Upper: The only British church clock with inset second dial, 19th C
Farmers Market, Friday Flea Market and a Saturday market.About Bristol & C Myers
Lower church, or crypt, c. 1375; used for worship from 1941-1959 (after 1940 bombing gutted the upper church). In the 1970s it was open for public events and a brass rubbing centre
Source: St. Nicholas' Church & City Museum: A guide to the building and its history by Bryan Little, 1980
1769 high altar with reredos from 1710; destroyed in 1940 bombing
Source: St. Nicholas' Church & City Museum: A guide to the building and its history by Bryan Little, 1980
The reopened church hosted the first service in 60 years on December 9, 2018. The 1755 William Hogarth Altarpiece, was painted for St Mary Redcliffe. Attempts to sell it failed in the 1800s and it was given to the Bristol Fine Art Academy. It was displayed in the ecclesiastical museum in St Nicholas, Bristol, during 1973. The triptych is still in the building. The three scenes are the Ascension with Mary Magdalene, Sealing the Sepulchre, and Three Marys at the Tomb.
Original fittings now in St Stephen's: brass eagle lectern (pre-Reformation 1480), early 18th century sword rest, wrought iron chancel gates, 1710. The parish combined in 1959 with St Leonard's and later with St Stephens
Medieval parish boundary markers for St Nicholas Church are still visible; this one is in St Nick's Market
Photo: Martin Booth,
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Medieval parish boundary markers for St Nicholas Church are still visible; this one, with two others is close to Exchange Avenue.
Photo: Martin Booth,
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Medieval parish boundary markers for St Nicholas Church are still visible; this one is on Exchange Avenue
Photo: Martin Booth,
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Bristol , Gloucestershire England UK
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Probably the 4th St Nicholas building on this site, the Gothic tower and nave are from 1769. Most furnishings were lost to fire bombs in a 1940 air raid that gutted the church. Closed as a parish church in 1964, the newly renovated church opened in 1979 as an ecclesiastical museum and venue for performing arts. This closed for lack of money, and the church then became Bristol's main Tourist Information Centre until 2000 and then used for city offices. The church reopened in December 2018 as a youth mission resource centre with a focus on worship and social action to combat homelessness, food poverty and youth unemployment. It is now known as St Nicholas Resourcing Church of the Bishop's Mission Order.
