St Nicholas Church, Kenilworth - September 13th, 1857

St Nicholas Church, Kenilworth

September 13th, 1857

We then walked out and bought prints of the castle, and inquired our way to the church and to the ruins of the Priory. The latter, so far as we could discover them, are very few and uninteresting; and the church, though it has a venerable exterior, and an aged spire, has been so modernized within, and in so plain a fashion, as to have lost what beauty it may once have had. 

Relief of Caroline Gresley (d.1817) by Richard Westmacott 

There were a few brasses and mural monuments, one of which was a marble group of a dying woman and her family by Westmacott. 

Remains of Kenilworth Priory

The sexton was a cheerful little man, but knew very little about his church, and nothing of the remains of the Priory. The day was spent very pleasantly amid this beautiful green English scenery, these fine old Warwickshire trees, and broad, gently swelling fields.

Nathaniel Hawthorne