Heritage Open Day: Church open -Display on church history; Information on restoration of the Blacknall Memorial and Aisle; Landscape in a Day event Join us at St Nicolas Church, for information on the restoration of the Blacknall Memorial (commemorating the death in 1625 of John & Jane Blacknall) and the stabilisation of the surrounding wall painting.
The Church of St Nicolas is one of the oldest buildings in Abingdon and one of the few remaining from the great Benedictine Abbey of Saint Mary at Abingdon.
Abingdon Abbey became an important Anglo-Saxon monastery in the 10th century under St Ethelwold. The Norman Conquest led to many changes, including the addition of St Nicolas‘ church, which was built in about 1170 AD.