Ancient South-Facing Door!
We visited Tixover on Sunday 26th October, 2025 - around 1 pm. The clocks have just changed so the UK is now back on GMT. We are staying in Market Overton for five-days (25.10.2025-3010.2025) - sponsored by Diane Wyles. Tixover Lodge is a working farm with about ten houses attached. Perhaps it is a hamlet - but the road into the place - just over the bridge at the West-end of Duddington, literally runs-out into a dirt-track where St Luke in the Field Church is located. This is a church built on a field surrounded by a rectangular stone-wall. We last visited around 2009 (but we seem not to have photographed or filmed) as a small number of "Wyles" people have either lived here - or married someone from here. I think there are two adjacent places similarly named just up the road as "Tixover Grange" and *Tixover Lodge" - the former I think is a small row of houses (I have a dim memory of visiting some time ago).
When we visited around 2009 - we had to acquire the church-key from the local farm. At that time, the church appeared to be locked. However, upon this visit in 2025, a sign on the church-door stated that the church is always open during day-light hours. Perhaps so few people visit - or when we visited - it was a time of year when few people visit. Even today - I think many might be put-off by the rather rustic nature of the dirt-track - as any approaching vehicle would require a stout suspension. The inside of the St Luke's Church is very simplistic and austere - what would be expected from a "Protestant" church following the stripping of the altars in the early 1500s. The attitude of the Anglican Church is that simplicity - free of the clutter of Papism - allows the average practitioner to commune with their "god" in a more direct manner.
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