More information : There was a small chantry chapel near the precinct of
the castle (TL 024 795) at Titchmarsh, dedicated to St Stephen,
and extant 1294-1462. (1)
Mrs Belgian, a local historian, recalls that Canon Lackock,
rector of Titchmarsh 1912-1962, told her that the chapel once
stood on a tongue of land known as Dovecots Close and indicated
the site at TL 0275 7931.
The site is permanent pasture and disturbances indicate former
occupation but no trace of building foundations were seen.
However it seems more likely that any building hereabouts would
have been a dovecote. The late Cannon Lackock's siting for the
chapel (last mentioned in 1462) must be considered most doubtful
without substantiating evidence, and it may have been no more
than a domestic chapel to the Manor House (TL 07 NW 1). (2)
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