St Nicholas' Church, Brockley

2013-06-26

Pirate gravestones and family fireplaces

Brockley church developed from a small Norman building in the 12th-and 13th-centuries. Its fine pinnacled tower was added in the 15th, but it owes much of its present furnishings and atmosphere to a thorough and graceful restoration in the 1820s.

The south transept has a spacious family pew with separate entrance and a fireplace, added by the Pigotts whose association with the parish lasted 300 years.

There is a Norman font and a stone pulpit of c1480 and a pirate’s gravestone in the churchyard.