Editing Alcester (section)

==Notable buildings==
[[File:Alcester Town Hall - geograph.org.uk - 670199.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|[[Alcester Town Hall]]]]
[[File:St Nicholas Church ^ Church Street, Alcester - geograph.org.uk - 2806974.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|St Nicholas’s Church, with its unusual corner clock]]
Today the town features architecture from the [[Medieval]], [[Tudor architecture|Tudor]], [[Georgian architecture|Georgian]], [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]] eras and the 20th century. The oldest house appears to be The Old [[Malthouse]] at the corner of Church Street and Malt Mill Lane, which probably dates from about 1500.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol3/pp8-22 |title=Parishes: Alcester &#124; British History Online |website=british-history.ac.uk |access-date=25 January 2020 |archive-date=25 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200125092830/https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol3/pp8-22 |url-status=live }}</ref>

St Nicholas's Church is a Grade II* [[listed building]].<ref>{{NHLE |num=1200612 |desc=Church of St Nicholas |access-date=12 November 2023   }}</ref> Its clock is in an unusual position on the south-west corner of the 14th-century [[bell tower|tower]], to make it visible from the High Street. The church also houses the tomb of Fulke Greville, grandfather of poet and statesman [[Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke]]. The church's Georgian [[nave]] with [[Doric order|Doric]] columns and plastered ceiling is believed to have been designed by [[Francis Smith of Warwick]], supervisor of its rebuild by the Woodward brothers of [[Chipping Campden]] in 1729.

[[Alcester Town Hall]] was built between 1618 and 1641, and is a [[listed building|grade I]] listed building.<ref name="OWATH">{{cite web |title=Alcester Town Hall |url=https://www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/content/catalogue_her/alcester-town-hall-5 |publisher=Our Warwickshire |access-date=16 December 2020 |archive-date=4 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204051718/https://www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/content/catalogue_her/alcester-town-hall-5 |url-status=live }}</ref>