page_title: Wickham Bishops
section_title: Churches
hierarchical_section_title: Wickham Bishops / Churches
caption_attribution_description: English: St Bartholomew's parish church, Wickham Bishops, Essex, seen from the southeast
context_page_description: Wickham Bishops is a village and civil parish in the Maldon district of Essex, England. It is located around three miles north of the town of Maldon and around two miles southeast of Witham, in whose post town it lies.
  The place-name 'Wickham Bishops' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as 'Wicham', meaning 'dwelling place with a farm'. 'Bishops' refers to the fact that the land belonged to the Bishop of London.
context_section_description: The Church of England parish church is St Bartholomew's. The church was built on the western side of the hill on which the village stands.  The clock on its steeple was converted to an electronic mechanism in June 2008 (previously being wound by hand). St Bartholomew's is a Victorian replacement for the medieval St Peter's Church, which stands alone in the fields to the west near the River Blackwater, and beyond the disused railway line to Maldon.
  The redundant Church of St Peter was probably built as a private chapel for the bishops of London who then owned the village. Since 1975 it has belonged to the Friends of Friendless Churches.
caption: St Bartholomew's Church, Wickham Bishops
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