Early churches, Bulkington

A chapel of St. Mary was in existence in the 14th century. Permission was granted to Henry Thorpe and John Gill in 1331 for a house and 20 acres of land to maintain a chaplain there to say mass for the souls of them and their ancestors. The chapel was still in existence in 1553 when the returns of the Commissioners of Edward VI show that a chalice weighing 9½oz was left at Bulkington. In 1576 a chapel of St. Andrew was granted by the Crown to Andrew Palmer and others. This suggests that St. Mary’s was abandoned between 1553 and 1576. Nothing further is known about either chapel. Local tradition (as recent as 1914) says that a chapel was at Newleaze, which is west of the church and Manor Farm.