Chapel of St. Nicholas
Romsey Abbey

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Statue carved from driftwood from the beach at Hythe, near Southhampton, by Peter Eugene Ball in 2005. It is at the entrance to St Nicholas Chapel

Photo: J M Rosenthal Used by permission

Photo: J M Rosenthal

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Postcard: St Nicholas Center Collection

St Nicholas at the entrance to the St Nicholas Chapel

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Memorial, to the right of St Nicholas statue, commemorates John & Grissell St Barbe of Broadlands, the estate that had originally belonged to the Abbey. They died in 1658 of 'sweating sickness'. They had four boys, one without a sprig of greenery had died before his parents.

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The tomb of Earl Mountbatten of Burma in the chapel

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St Nicholas Chapel

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Roundels, originally part of a larger cycle, showing the miracles of Saint Nicholas. The lower ones depict the story of the Nicholas icon protecting a man's goods. The images are on the south side of the north arch, in St Mary's Chapel.

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Romsey, Hampshire England UK

Church of England (Anglican)

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The church was originally a Benedictine nunnery, built in the 900s. Following Viking raiders burning the village and church in AD 993, the stone church was built around 1000. Normans again rebuilt the abbey around 1130-1140. The abbey church survived the Dissolution of the Monasteries as the section dedicated to St Lawrence served as a worship place for the townspeople. The town purchased the buildings from the Crown and demolished the St Lawrence portion to reuse stone and lead. It is now a parish church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary & St Ethelflaeda of Romsey. The Chapel of St Nicholas is in the south transcept.