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Location	Church Lane, Tooting Graveney, Greater London, SW17 9PP
Country	England
Denomination	Church of England
History
Status	Active
Architecture
Functional status	Parish church
Administration
Parish	Tooting Graveney
Archdeaconry	Archdeaconry of Wandsworth
Diocese	Diocese of Southwark

St Nicholas, Tooting Graveney, is a Church of England parish church in central Tooting, London, England.

History

The church of St Nicholas has its origins in the Saxon period, and is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086. The original building was extended and altered many times, but retained its round Saxon tower. By 1814 however, the congregation had exceeded its capacity, and it was decided to rebuild the church on a nearby site, which was achieved in 1832–33 under the architect Thomas Witlam Atkinson, while this new building was itself extended in the Victorian period. It has been a grade II listed building since 1955, and its archives are held by the London Metropolitan Archives.

Present

St Nicholas's continues to be an active local church, with services at 10:30 and 18:00 each Sunday.

Notable clergy

John Buxton Marsden, rector from 1833 to 1844, cleric and historian

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