Inside St Peter & St Paul in Newchurch
Inside the church is a fine Jacobean pulpit, the oldest on the Marsh. Newchurch was mentioned in the Domesday Book, the original record of William I’s survey of England following the conquest in 1066. It is recorded as the name of a hundred, this being a unit of English local government and taxation, intermediate between village and shire, which survived into the 19th century.
Its inclusion in the Domesday Book suggests that there was a church here at the Norman Conquest when it was almost certainly a wooden structure .
Inside St Peter & St Paul in Newchurch
Inside the church is a fine Jacobean pulpit, the oldest on the Marsh. Newchurch was mentioned in the Domesday Book, the original record of William I’s survey of England following the conquest in 1066. It is recorded as the name of a hundred, this being a unit of English local government and taxation, intermediate between village and shire, which survived into the 19th century.
Its inclusion in the Domesday Book suggests that there was a church here at the Norman Conquest when it was almost certainly a wooden structure .