St Nicholas church, Nore Road
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St Nicholas church, Nore Road
Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 19 Jul 2020
This large and impressive church has a local connection to the old Nautical School just up the hill. Originally, a training ship was moored out in the Bristol Channel ‘to train boys who would otherwise through poverty or parental neglect, or being orphans, be left destitute and homeless, and in danger of being contaminated with vice and crime’. In other words it was a floating orphanage in all but name. Having gradually rotted over time a Mr Harry Fedden, a Bristol philanthropist, was a prime mover in founding a land-based school to replace the wooden ship. That opened in 1906 and this new church for the boys was founded in 1911, using stone from the Chappell Charity quarry. A benchmark can be seen on the church's east angle - see Image St Nicholas is the patron saint of sailors and young boys.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.481391
Longitude
-2.800181