Alcester is a market town and also civil parish of Roman origin at the joint of the River Alne as well as River Arrowhead in Warwickshire, England, approximately 8 miles (13 km) west of Stratford-upon-Avon, and 8 miles southern of Redditch, close to the Worcestershire border. The 2011 census tape-recorded a population of 6,273. Today the town includes architecture from the Medieval, Tudor, Georgian, Victorian and also 20th century. The earliest residence seems The Old Malthouse at the corner of Church Road and also Malt Mill Lane, which probably dates from about 1500. The clock on St Nicholas Church (Grade 2 *) remains in an uncommon setting on the south-west corner of the 14th-century tower, making it visible from the High Street. The church likewise houses the burial place of Fulke Greville, grandpa of Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke. The church's Georgian nave with Doric columns and plastered ceiling is thought to have been developed by Francis Smith of Warwick, supervisor of its restore by Woodward siblings of Chipping Camden in 1729.