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A BIT OF HISTORY


You may have wondered where is the funny little church depicted in the first stained glass window of the north nave aisle in Nocton Church.

The owner of Nocton Hall, the Honourable George Hobart, later the 3rd Earl of Buckinghamshire, did not like the medieval Nocton Church and Vicarage being so close to his magnificent Hall, so every vestige disappeared together with all the graves which can be seen only as a mound south west of the Hall ruins.

He erected a new church and vicarage on the place where the current church and Old Vicarage now stand.  This 'funny' little church was consecrated in July 1775.

It was described as a 'mean structure' and began to fall down quickly and was finally pulled down in 1862 by the Marquis of Ripon's widow Sarah, and the present church was constructed by her in memory of her husband.

Only two objects survive all three churches - the medieval font and the huge monument to Sir William Ellys, another Nocton owner, which is in the north porch.

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