St Nicholas Church, Chiswick

St Nicholas Church, Chiswick
The Parish Church of Saint Nicholas
St Nicholas Church, Chiswick
51°29′10″N 0°15′02″W / 51.4860°N 0.2506°W / 51.4860; -0.2506
Location	Church Street, Chiswick, London
Country	England
Denomination	Church of England
Website	www.stnicholaschiswick.org
History
Status	Parish church
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Administration
Diocese	London
Archdeaconry	Middlesex
Deanery	Hounslow
Parish	St Nicholas with St Mary Magdalene, Chiswick
Clergy
Vicar(s)	Simon Brandes
Listed Building – Grade II*
Designated	11 July 1951
Reference no.	1189405

St Nicholas Church, Chiswick is a Grade II* listed Anglican church in Church Street, Chiswick, London, near the River Thames.^[1] Old Chiswick developed as a village around the church from c. 1181.^[2] The tower was built at some time between 1416 and 1435.

The current church dates from 1882 to 1884, when most of the building except the tower was demolished and rebuilt at the expense of the brewer Henry Smith of the nearby Fuller, Smith and Turner brewery. Several monuments survive, mainly in the tower. In the churchyard is a monument to the Italian poet and patriot, Ugo Foscolo; his remains were returned to Italy, but the Italian government added an inscription to the monument. The painter William Hogarth's monument, near the church, has an epitaph by the actor David Garrick. In the burial ground is the grave of Frederick Hitch, Victoria Cross recipient and veteran of the Battle of Rorke's Drift.