Kenilworth Church

NO one seems to know when St Nicholas's Church at Kenilworth was founded, but it may have been in the early 1200s, about a century after the founding of St Mary's Priory.

First glimpse of the church when walking down from High Street in the old town

Functional is perhaps the best that can be said about the interior, but my tastes may have been spoilt by viewing too many gaudy Roman Catholic churches on the Continent

St Nicholas's is built from red sandstone, locally sourced, and was much altered over the centuries, including benefiting from the demolition of St Mary's - by then upgraded to an abbey - by Henry VIII's men in the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

St Nicholas's cemetery has expanded into what were abbey grounds