Churches
The Anglican parish church is St Bartholomew's. The clock on its steeple was converted to electronic mechanism in June 2008 (previously being wound by hand). There is also the redundant Church of St Peter which was probably built as a private chapel for the bishops of London who then owned the village.
Read more about this topic: Wickham Bishops
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“I fancy it must be the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character insusceptible of civilisation. I suspect it is in their kitchens and not in their churches that their reformation must be worked, and that Missionaries of that description from [France] would avail more than those who should endeavor to tame them by precepts of religion or philosophy.”
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