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Gateway to St Nicholas Church, Deptford Green
With death head skulls atop the gateports
Image: © Eirian Evans
Taken: 28 Nov 2013
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St. Nicholas' Church, Deptford Green, SE8 - churchyard (3)
Image: © Mike Quinn
Taken: 2 Jul 2009
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The "skull & crossbones" entrance to St. Nicholas' Church, Deptford Green, SE8
Image: © Mike Quinn
Taken: 2 Jul 2009
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Skull & crossbones on the gatepost at the entrance to St. Nicholas' Church, Deptford Green, SE8
See
Image The skulls have wreaths of laurel. This is a message of immortality. {Source: Leaflet "St Nicholas' Church, Deptford Green".}
Image: © Mike Quinn
Taken: 2 Jul 2009
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Plaque re St. Nicholas' Church, Deptford Green, SE8
Image: © Mike Quinn
Taken: 1 Jul 2009
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The Church of St Nicholas, Deptford Green
There has been a church on this site since the period of the Norman conquest and parts of the present church date from the 14th century. In October 1940, incendiary bombs fell on the church.
Image: © Eirian Evans
Taken: 28 Nov 2013
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Entrance door on the west side of the tower of St. Nicholas' Church, Deptford Green, SE8
The entrance is several steps below the current ground level which has been raised over the centuries due to mass burials during catastrophic epidemics such as the Black Death, smallpox, and the Great Plague of London. {Source: Leaflet "St Nicholas' Church, Deptford Green".}
Image: © Mike Quinn
Taken: 2 Jul 2009
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The tower of St. Nicholas' Church, Deptford Green, SE8 - detail
Image: © Mike Quinn
Taken: 2 Jul 2009
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The tower of St. Nicholas' Church, Deptford Green, SE8
The buttressed portion of the tower is the oldest part of the church, probably dating from the 14th C. The topmost portion, from the louvred belfry openings upwards, had to be rebuilt after a violent storm weakened the tower in 1901. {Source: Leaflet "St Nicholas' Church, Deptford Green".}
Image: © Mike Quinn
Taken: 1 Jul 2009
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St. Nicholas' Church, Deptford Green, SE8 - 18th C graffiti
On the south wall of the base of the tower - see
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Image: © Mike Quinn
Taken: 2 Jul 2009
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