This museum closed in 2007 and the building was used by the city council as offices; in 2018 the church came back into use as an Anglican place of worship in the Diocese of Bristol.

[1] The interior was destroyed by bombing in the Bristol Blitz of 1940 and rebuilt in 1974–1975 as a church museum.

[2] It currently holds one of only two public commissions by Hogarth,[3] the tripartite altarpiece (Bristol Museum ref K2429-K2431[4]), Sealing the Tomb which was originally painted for St Mary Redcliffe Church in 1755.

The painting remained at St Mary Redcliffe until 1858, when the Victorian community mounted a campaign to remove those furnishings which were not in keeping with the church's original Gothic character.

[3] In 1955 the paintings were passed over to Bristol Museum and Art Gallery and restored whilst residing in St Nicholas' church.