When you stand in the Church of St Mary, Easton Neston, you are in a building that has had a presence here for eight centuries as the first recorded Incumbent of this medieval church was Nicholas de Grey in 1223. The Church stood between the villages of Easton Neston to the south and Hulcote to the north.  In 1499 the village of Easton Neston appears to have been abandoned, although the Manor House remained to the south until the existing house was started on higher ground in the late 17th Century by Sir William Fermor.  This was designed by renowned British architect Nicholas Hawksmoor and completed in 1702. This is a building which has evolved over time and much of it dates back to the 13th and 14th centuries.