Hickleton Church (described by Ryder in 1982, 93) is "externally a completely Perpendicular building, pinnacled and embasttled. Inside . . . a Norman chancel arch with zigzag". A more detailed account of the development of this church (Sydes 1984) was elucidated by extensive excavations in advance of substantial underpinning of the building in 1984 after the buildings structure was severely compromised in the later 20th century by mining subsidence (Hill Rowe 1984). The excavation revealed a much more complicated sequence than is apparent in the visible church architecture, the earliest deposits of which included a buried soil containing a silver penny of 905AD, Saxon and Roman pottery and a Roman brooch pin. The first church structure survived only as the basal courses of the nave and comprised a single celled structure, perhaps a chapel of ease, enlarged in the mid 12th century with a chancel - it is to this phase to which the present chancel arch dates. The 13th century saw an expansion of the church with the construction of a southern aisle, extended chancel and chapel to the north of the chancel -additions which (apart from the chancel extension ) were lost in a contraction of the church during the 14th century. The remainder of the church testified to the construction of the present Perpendicular (15th and 16th) church fabric and episodes of restoration / reconstruction in the 18th and 19th centuries. The polygon includes a vicarage and medieval cross base. Unknown legibility of earlier landscape.