Chickney, St Mary
St Mary, Chickney from the south, c.1086 Illustration by Daniel Secker
Always a remote place, Chickney is even less populous now than it was at the time of the Domesday Survey. The church, which overlooks a picturesque valley is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust and is open at any reasonable time. As at Great Easton, St Mary, Chickney is situated within a curvilinear churchyard. Despite the rebuilding of the chancel and addition of a west tower, much of the eleventh century church remains. The church is unambiguously Anglo-Saxon in style with its rubble quoins and double-splayed windows. Domesday, however, mentions a priest in 1086 but implies the absence of one in 1066. The church may therefore have been built chortly after the Conquest
Always a remote place, Chickney is even less populous now than it was at the time of the Domesday Survey. The church, which overlooks a picturesque valley is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust and is open at any reasonable time. As at Great Easton, St Mary, Chickney is situated within a curvilinear churchyard. Despite the rebuilding of the chancel and addition of a west tower, much of the eleventh century church remains. The church is unambiguously Anglo-Saxon in style with its rubble quoins and double-splayed windows. Domesday, however, mentions a priest in 1086 but implies the absence of one in 1066. The church may therefore have been built chortly after the Conquest