St Nicholas, Oddington

Whilst up visiting family in the Cotswolds I got chance to visit Oddington, after a good old walk around the nearby woods we decided to have a quick peak inside St Nicholas church, a medieval church dating back to the 11th Century.

I thought I’d share a few images of this magnificent church.

St Nicholas Church, Oddington is well known for its magnificent medieval wall paintings. Dating back to the 11th Century, the church once stood on the Manor of Oddington which was owned by the Archbishop of York.

The main wall painting in the church is the 14th Century ‘Doom’ and adorns the western end of the north wall of the nave. Dating back to around 1340 the painting is 32 feet long by 15 feet high.

The bell tower, whose bells hung silent and dangerous for many years were lovingly restored in the early 1970′s, where a treble bell was added.

Many more images of St Nicholas’s HERE