The Parish Church of St Nicholas has been a place of Christian worship for over 1000 years.  Excluding Ripon Cathedral (672AD) and Hexham Abbey (674AD), St Nicholas’ Worth (c. 950) is the 11th oldest church in the country, coming after:

• St Martin’s Canterbury (597)
• St Peter-on-the-Wall Bradwell-on-Sea (654)
• St John the Evangelist Escomb (670)
• St Peter Monkwearmouth (674)
• St Paul Jarrow (680)
• St Lawrence Bradford on Avon (7th century)
• All Saints Brixworth (650-870)
• St Andrew Greensted (845)
• St Nicholas Leicester (c. 900)
• St Peter Barton-on-Humber (9th century)

Click below to watch a video about the history of St Nicholas.

Click for more information on:

• The founding of the church
• The church building, inside and out
• Names on our war memorial
• The churchyard
• The 1986 fire and restoration
• The bells
• A quiz to do in church