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Summary

The Grade II listed St Nicholas Church is the oldest of the three town centre churches in Sutton, on the outskirts of London. It is surrounded by a small ancient graveyard, which is wooded. It also contains some lawned areas with benches. Two well used public footpaths run through these grounds. It is in ecumenical partnership with other denominations and in a Team Ministry with other Anglican churches.

The present building stands on a site that has been used as a church since Saxon times - an earlier, smaller church occupied the site until the nineteenth century, which apart from its piscina was replaced by the present church building, which was consecrated in February 1864. It was designed by Edwin Nash, an architect involved in church restoration, whose son lived in Sutton Common Road. The vestry on the north side of the chancel was added in the late 19th century, as was the church's stained glass.

Many of Sutton's notable historic residents are buried in the churchyard. These include Mr Horward Orme, the final owner of the Manor House, and 185 orphans from the Metropolitan District School. The orphans' graves a marked by a memorial put up by the church's Sunday School children in 1921. A large WWII bomb landed on the churchyard in September 1940. It caused the destruction of several graves, but the church building itself remained intact.

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