Here he published The Monmouthshire Melodist, a collection of psalm and hymn tunes and anthems, with several pieces by other composers working in the area.
[11] His most famous work, the oratorio Babylon, was first performed in the newly completed Ebenezer Baptist Church in 1857 – however, it was not published until after his death.
[12] In late 1858, Nicholds was admitted to the local workhouse, the Dudley & Sedgley Union, Shaver's End (Burton Road), where he died on 18 February 1860.
[13] On 21 February, ... various old friends of the deceased, most of them musicians, assembled at the workhouse at Shaver's End, and after singing "Oft as the bell with solemn toll" to one of the tunes which deceased had composed, which singing had a beautiful effect, they carried the coffin out, placed it in a hearse, and accompanied it to Sedgley churchyard, where the last sad rites were impressively performed, and a man much respected consigned to his final resting place.
"[14]The remains of his memorial, the tombstone, may be seen in the old Sedgley cemetery (now the Garden of Rest), placed into the ground close to the centre of the park – only the inscribed tablet survives of what was a 10-ft tall obelisk-topped monument.