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resides in the habitable portion of the old building kindly 
conducted the party all over the place, which has a fine oak 
staircase, and it is said a secret chamber behind some sliding 
panel for a priest in old days of peril, but the owner stated that 
it once suddenly opened during some cleaning operations and so 
frightened the domestic that she fled, and on returning with 
others, found it closed, and it has not been discovered since ! 
However this may be, in the Somerset Archeological Society’s 
Proceedings for 1881, it is stated that many members of that 
learned body inspected it on their visit to the place. ' 
Bidding farewell to the Rector of Chelvey with thanks for his 
notes and information, a start was made for Tickenham, which 
was duly reached at 12.45 p.m., the want of time not allowing a 
visit to Nailsea old Church and Court passed half way. The 
Church of Tickenham is a fine structure, well restored, and is 
dedicated to two strangely named Saints, Quiricus and Julietta. 
The Chancel arch is Early Norman. A coloured window of the 
Crucifixion in the South aisle to the chancel is supposed from the 
sage green colour of the cross to be Italian glass of the XIII 
Century. The windows of the North Aisle of the Nave are of 
Early English Decorated and Perpendicular styles of tracery and 
beneath them lie three recumbent figures in stone supposed to be 
Berkeleys, as they held this manor for generations. Two are 
crusaders in armour, the third a lady in a long robe held up by 
one hand and with a plain wimple under her chin betokening the 
date of the statutes, early in the XIII Century. The heads of 
the lady and one of the crusaders, doubtless her husband, are 
reproduced as corbels to the fine roll moulding over the entrance 
door in the South porch. The Early English font, and the arcade 
without capitals, in this Church are worthy of notice. 
To the North-East of the Church stands the remnant of the 
Court, now with modern additions used as a farm house. The 
old manor house was of the XV Century, there remains a fine 
hall with open oak roof and windows with transitional tracery 
