Facilities and features
Accessibility
We have a single unisex toilet, meeting all disabled standards, easily accessed from the back of the nave, and very well sound insulated to allow discreet use during services.
We have a single unisex toilet, meeting all disabled standards, easily accessed from the back of the nave, and very well sound insulated to allow discreet use during services.
The access to our church is level, and easy for prams, wheelchair users, walking frames etc.
The church has an induction loop serving the entire nave, driven from the PA system. All microphone input and recorded music is available to a hearing aid user. The loop is tested regularly.
Assistance dogs (or any more exotic animals that help and guide their owners) are very welcome.
Our Building
Our stained glass windows date from the Victorian makeover in the 1840s, and were produced by Thomas Willement and John Hardman. Details are available in the guidebook written by Charles Brazier (see our History tab).
The church is intended to be open to all daily from 10 am, and is quiet enough for private prayer at most times.
The church is Grade II* listed, primarily because of its connection with the Tractarian Society, and the architectural design of the choir and sanctuary derived from this. The reredos is a splendid copy (by a local artist in 1912) of Renaissance church paintings in the Palazzo Medici Riccardi, in Florence.
The church has achieved Bronze level as an eco-church.
Music and Worship
The church has six bells (tenor 12 cwt) and we ring before the majority of services, and for festivals and national celebrations.
We have a distinctive Nicholson's organ made in 1852, and still played using a mechanical action - but we have fitted a electrical blower to replace the child-driven pump!
Groups, Courses and Activities
Help for Visitors
Two guide books are on sale: A Look at St Nicholas' Church Kemerton, by Charlie Brazier, and Kemerton Remembers, a collation of World War I and II memories.
The church is normally open for visitors every day, typically from 10 am until dusk.
Other Features
The countryside around the church is geologically an outlier of the Cotswold hills, and is included in the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). The parish backs on to Bredon Hill, with its extensive tracks and footpaths, an iron-age hill fort, and vast views north over Evesham Vale.