Church of St. Nicholas, Thames Ditton

Church of St Nicholas, Thames Ditton
St Nicholas's Church
Location	Thames Ditton, Surrey
Country	United Kingdom
Denomination	Church of England
Website	St Nicholas's Church website
Architecture
Status	Consecrated
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade I listed
Architectural type	Medieval, Gothic and Neo-Gothic
Specifications
Materials	Body: sandstone-dressed flint and brick Roof: plain tiles and slate
Administration
Parish	Thames Ditton
Archdeaconry	Dorking
Diocese	Guildford

Coordinates: 51°23′31″N 0°19′52″W / 51.392°N 0.331°W / 51.392; -0.331

St Nicholas Church in Thames Ditton, Surrey, England, is a Grade-I listed building Anglican parish church that has parts that date back to the 12th century.

The Norman manorial owner after the Conquest gave the churchlands and tithes payable across the privately held land (the bulk, which did not form wooded or meadowland common or unproductive waste) to the monks of the parish to Merton Priory: during the reign of Henry I (1100–1135), Gilbert the Norman, High Sheriff of Surrey, gave the advowson of Kingston - the right to appoint the incumbent priest of a church - together with four young chapelries to Merton Priory. Whether these were fully built of stone at the point is uncertain.

Gilbert died in 1125, which demonstrates a functional chapelry, whether or not of stone, at Thames Ditton around 1120, with higher levels of ecclesiastical control by Kingston Church and Merton Priory. In any event the earliest stonework of the church appears to English Heritage to date to the 12th century. A certain 'William' was Vicar at Thames Ditton from 1179.