As it stands today, Titchfield church consists of a western tower; a nave with north and south aisles; and a chancel with a chapel on its south side. The church as we see it was not built at one single period; it evolved slowly over the centuries. It does in fact contain work of all the main periods from Anglo-Saxon to Perpendicular.

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF TITCHFIELD

By Tim Lambert

TITCHFIELD IN THE MIDDLE AGES

In the 6th century AD people called the Jutes from Denmark settled the Isle of Wight and part of Hampshire. A tribe called the Meon settled in the Meon Valley and they founded the settlement at Titchfield.

Titchfield was originally a feld, that is an open area of land where animals could graze. This feld may have belonged to a man with a name like Ticca. In time Ticca's feld became the village of Titchfield........

The village of Titchfield lies between the cities Southampton and Portsmouth on the South Coast of England.

Few English villages or small towns have as rich and varied a history as Titchfield. Important palaeolithic remains; the oldest standing piece of ecclesiastic architecture in Hampshire; the site of a famous monastic library; a handsome late medieval barn; buildings associated with our greatest dramatist; one of the earliest known canals; and the remains of one of the best known industrial developments of the eighteenth century are some of its features.