Tickenham is a village near the edge of NE Somerset, close to Clevedon. The present-day settlement straddles the modern B road which connects Clevedon 3mi to the W and Bristol. From the principal limestone ridge an offshoot tends in a more south-westerly direction. Just before it finishes, there is an eminence (Clifton Down Limestone) occupied by Tickenham manor house and church. Thus isolated from the main line of settlement on one side and above the moors on the other, the church and manor-house still enjoy much of the setting which they must originally have had. Running close to the knoll (approximately 10m above OD) is the Middle Yeo river; its near neighbour, the Land Yeo, runs round the northern side.

The church of St. Quiricus and St. Julietta has 11thc. origins, with the nave and chancel being extended by the addition of aisles and S chapel in the early 13thc. It has a Romanesque chancel arch. The church's dedication is extremely unusual – there are only three similar dedications in the UK, two in Cornwall (Luxulyan and St Veep) and one at Swaffham Prior in Cambridgeshire.

DB has two entries for Tickenham, the first manor was held by Saewulf and Teolf in 1066 and by William de Eu in 1086. The second manor was held by Eadric in 1066 and by Ernulf de Hesdin in 1086. Robert Fitzharding endowed St Augustine's Abbey, Bristol, with the advowson of Tickenham as part of his foundation of the Abbey in 1148 (VCH).

The fieldworker notes the presence of parallel tooling marks in the S arcade, which would suggest that despite the presence of fully pointed arches here (along with the minimalist aesthetic) which might normally be viewed as 13thc, the small amount of sculpture here is probably late 12thc.

Tickenham shows us that not all Romanesque fabric was elaborately sculptured, even where there was a monastic patron.