St Nicholas' Church

Very nice church, with amazing history and a nice congregation.

An historic place. Has moved with the times and allows access for a number of not-that-religious activities

We received a very warm welcome from Enid on the Sunday of the Essex air ambulance motorbike day. She spent ages telling us about the history of the church. There's so much to discover and we were made to feel very welcome

Fantastic church for funerals getting married and many other events

Beautiful church and wonderful harvest festival service

Unfortunately the church is not open to visitors

Beautiful Old Church it was first built in the 16th century then rebuilt again I think the 18th

Such a beautiful church, well worth visiting. Lovely little knitting group was there when I went to visit they meet there often for a natter and a knit.

Great church have noticed a big change after so many years

St. Nicholas' is a very impressive church standing closeby to the waterfront of old Harwich town. The tall tower & spire have long been regarded as a key navigation point by local mariners (& can actually be sighted from as faraway as the turn in the sea wall on The Orwell, approaching Pin Mill). It's specifically mentioned as a seafarers' marker by Arthur Ransome in, 'We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea'. St. Nicholas' is quite an intimidating structure with rather severe, neo-gothic stonework & high windows bearing little resemblance to many other such churches to be found around this part of rural, coastal Essex. Partly this is due to the unusual height of the glazing & use of cast iron for the tracery window frames. The material was going through a fashionable period of use, largely due to the success of the foundries in nearby Ipswich, from where the frames were cast & shipped. Although crammed into a dense developed area of Harwich old town, St. Nicholas' was allotted quite a generous plot for a churchyard, but even so it remains mostly flat lawn with no burials on-site. So both church & churchyard are somewhat bland on-site, & best seen from afar.