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St Nicholas Church, Chiswick is a Grade II* listed Anglican church in Church Street, Chiswick, London, near the River Thames. Old Chiswick developed as a village around the church from c. 1181. The tower was built at some time between 1416 and 1435.
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St Nicholas Church, Chiswick was founded c. 1181. Most of...
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St Nicholas Church, Chiswick. A treasure by the Thames, transforming lives. All are welcome at St Nicholas. We encourage Christians of any denomination or none, followers of other faiths, or the simply curious to join us on any occasion.
Painting Corney House in Chiswick from the River by Jacob Knyff, 1675–80. St Nicholas Church is in the centre. Chiswick occupies a meander of the River Thames, 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Charing Cross. The district is built up towards the north with more open space in the south, including the grounds of Chiswick House and Duke's Meadows.
Chiswick House Gardens. The Chiswick House Gardens form the grounds of Chiswick House, now in West London, England. Lord Burlington first arranged the gardens in the 1720s to match his ideas of the gardens of classical times and the Palladianism of the house. In the 1730s, William Kent created England's first landscape garden in part of the ...
A place of worship has existed on the banks of the Thames near the ferry since the seventh century, the only church in Chiswick until 1843. The first written evidence about the church is recorded in a document from St Paul’s Cathedral in 1181 followed by Visitations in 1252, 1297 and 1450 now stored in the Guildhall Library detailing many treasures of the church plate and vestments.
A brief history of St Nicholas. The church stands in Church Street on the banks of the River Thames near the former ferry, which was the only means of crossing the river for many years. There is reason to believe that during the time of Mellitus, Bishop of London in the 7th century, a pagan shrine on this site was converted to Christian worship ...
