According to tradition a gallery was constructed from the timbers of a ship wrecked on St Helen's; increasing the capacity to 200.

[2] Edith Dorrien-Smith laid the foundation stone of the Anglican church of St Nicholas on 12 September 1877, near the old building.

The church was opened for worship on 17 June 1879 by Edward White Benson, the first Bishop of Truro.

[4] The three-panelled reredos is made of red serpentine and inlaid with a marble cross, aureola and sacred emblems.

[8] St Nicholas's Church is within the United Benefice of the Isles of Scilly parishes, comprising