page_title: Oddington, Gloucestershire
section_title: St. Nicholas Church
hierarchical_section_title: Oddington, Gloucestershire / St. Nicholas Church
caption_attribution_description: English: Oddington Church St Nicholas's church at Oddington is situated a distance from Lower Oddington. The church dates back to the 12th century, the tower dates from the 13th century. Originally the church belonged to St Peter's Abbey at Gloucester, but in 1157 the church was transferred to the See of York and in the 13th century Oddington was the residence of the Archbishop of York.
context_page_description: Lower Oddington and Upper Oddington are a pair of adjoining villages in the English county of Gloucestershire. Together they form the civil parish of Oddington. In 2010 the parish had an estimated population of 477, decreasing at the 2011 census to 417.
  The two villages are located to the south of the A436 road two miles east of the town of Stow-on-the-Wold.
context_section_description: The Church of England parish church of Saint Nicholas was originally a cell of St Peter’s Benedictine abbey in Gloucester. It was ceded in 1157 to the Diocese of York and exchanged with the Crown in 1547. The church is built of dressed limestone and has a stone slate roof. Part of the nave is twelfth century and part thirteenth century. The chancel is fifteenth century and the tower at the east end is thirteenth century. The Norman south aisle probably represents the original nave. The church was all but abandoned among its fields in 1852, and has been little altered since. It has medieval wall paintings of the Doom on the north wall of the nave, dating to the early 15th century. They were whitewashed over in the English Reformation and conserved by Eve Baker from 1969. Scenes depicted include the Acts of Mercy and the Seven Deadly Sins. It is a Grade I listed building, having been added to the register on 25 August 1960.
caption: St Nicholas church
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