page_title: St Nicholas Church, Worth
section_title: The church today
hierarchical_section_title: St Nicholas Church, Worth / The church today
caption_attribution_description: English: St Nicholas' Church, Worth
context_page_description: St Nicholas Church is a Church of England parish church in Worth, a village in Crawley, England, which at one time had the largest geographical parish in England.
context_section_description: Worth Church is still in use as a parish church today, - and is thought to be the oldest church in continuous use in the country. It has at least two services each Sunday (usually 8am and 10am) and a midweek Eucharist on Thursdays at 10.30am. It has a band of bellringers and a church choir.
  The churchyard includes the grave of Robert Whitehead, inventor of the modern torpedo. In a plot bordered with blue railings, his epitaph reads "His fame was known by all nations hereabouts". Also in the churchyard are the Commonwealth war graves of four British Army soldiers and a Royal Navy officer of World War I and a British Army officer and an Indian Army officer of World War II.
caption: Interior, looking east towards the apsidal chancel
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