St. Nicholas Chapel
Romsey Abbey

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Statue carved from driftwood by Peter Eugene Ball in 2005, at the entrance to St Nicholas Chapel

Photo: J M Rosenthal Used by permission

Photo: J M Rosenthal

Used by permission

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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St Nicholas at the entrance to the St Nicholas 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.

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Romsey, Hampshire England UK

Church of England (Anglican)

Church Website

The church was originally a Benedictine nunnery, built in the 900s. Following Viking raiders burning the fillage and church in 993, the stone chuch was built around 1000. Normans again rebuilt the abbey around 1130-1140. The abbey church survived the Dissolution of the Monasteries as it 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.