Tickencote

The village's name means 'shed of young goats'. of St Peter's Church]] The village is famous for St Peter's Church, Tickencote, which possesses a superb Norman chancel arch and an unusual chancel roof vault. In the arch, five orders of shafts support seven orders of moulded arches with zig zag, billet, beak heads, grotesques, crenellations and all manner of leaves, animals and motifs. The arch has sunk in the last 900 years to give a rather depressed appearance. The church was partly rebuilt in neo-Norman style by Samuel Pepys Cockerell in 1792. From 1909 to 1912 the vicar was the Venerable Lonsdale Ragg, later the Archdeacon of Gibraltar from 1934 to 1945. John Clare, when working as a…