List of Monuments Especially Worthy of Preservation

SCHEDULE B.

LIST OF MONUMENTS SELECTED BY THE COMMISSION AS ESPECIALLY WORTHY OF PRESERVATION.

1. AMERSHAM.

Secular

(29). Almshouses: A good dated example of 17th-century brickwork.

Condition—Good.

(36) House, No. 47, High Street, with interesting 15th-century remains.

Condition—Of the inhabited part of the house, fairly good; the back of each wing is disused and out of repair.

3. ASHLEY GREEN.

Secular:—(2) Barn and Moat at Grove Farm: Part of a mediæval stone building strongly defended by a curtain wall and double moat.

Condition—Of barn fairly good, but the walls are cracking and the building suffers from its present use; of moat, good.

6. AYLESBURY.

Ecclesiastical:—(1) Parish Church of St. Mary: A 13th-century building, with massive central tower, finely proportioned. Among the fittings the late 12th-century font is noteworthy.

Condition—In good repair.

Secular:—(115) The Old King's Head Inn: The hall is a fine example of mediæval domestic work built in the second half of the 15th century; its large window retains some original glass.

Condition—Good, very much altered.

8. BIERTON with BROUGHTON.

Ecclesiastical:—(1) Parish Church of St. James: Good 14th-century architecture; the carved doorways in the S. transept are worthy of notice. The paten is a rare survival of 14th-century church plate.

Condition—Good structurally, but somewhat damp.

9. BLEDLOW.

Ecclesiastical:—(1) Parish Church of Holy Trinity: The early 13th-century nave arcades, the 14th-century windows, and the remains of mediæval mural paintings in the N. aisle are noteworthy.

Condition—Good.

Unclassified:—(15) Bledlow Cross: One of the two turf-cuttings in the county.

Condition—Fairly good.

10. BOARSTALL.

Secular:—(4) Gatehouse, of the 14th century, with cross-loops and the grooves for a portcullis; the only remaining example of a mediæval fortified building in the S. half of the county.

Condition—Good.

13. BRILL.

Secular:—(22) Windmill: One of the few 17th-century examples; still in use.

Condition—Good.

15. BURNHAM.

Ecclesiastical:—(3) Burnham Abbey: The remains indicate almost completely the plan of a small Augustinian abbey of the 13th century. The chapter-house doorway is notable.

Condition—Ruinous, suffering from present usage and urgently in need of preservation; many of the walls have fallen down recently.

16. CHALFONT ST. GILES.

Secular:—(2) Jordans Meeting-house: An early example of a Quaker meetinghouse. Of peculiar historical interest from its association with William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania.

Condition—Good.

19. CHENIES.

Roman:—(1) Dwelling-house, remains, near Dell Farm.

Condition—Carefully preserved.

Ecclesiastical:—(2) Parish Church of St. Michael: The monuments in the Bedford Chapel are of unusual importance as a record of members of one family since the 16th century, and as an illustration of heraldic devices and costumes of the 16th and 17th centuries. The 15th and 16th-century brasses in the nave and S. aisle of the church are also worthy of note.

Condition—Very good.

Secular:—(3) The Manor House: Good 16th-century brickwork, especially in the chimney stacks; and a vaulted cellar of the 15th century.

Condition—Good.

21. CHESHAM.

Secular

(8) House, 54 and 56, Church Street: Of the 14th century, with fine window tracery of wood.

Condition—Fairly good.

(26) Codmore Farm: A 15th-century house, with roof of the original hall.

Condition—Good.

(52) Blackwell Hall Farm: A 15th-century building with large moulded roof trusses.

Condition—Good, but overgrown with ivy.

23. CHILTON.

Ecclesiastical:—(1) Parish Church of St. Mary: A fine church with curious development of plan, 12th to 16th-century. Among the fittings are a 13th-century effigy, a 17th-century monument with alabaster effigies, and a 17th-century hour-glass stand.

Condition—Good.

24. CHOLESBURY.

Pre-historic:—(1) Plateau Camp: A notable example of its class.

Condition—Fairly good.

28. DENHAM.

Secular

(3) The Savoy: A fine mediæval timber-framed house, built not later than the beginning of the 14th century. It retains complete evidence of a great hall with aisles, apparently the only instance in S. Buckinghamshire. The mural paintings are unusually numerous and well preserved.

Condition—Good.

(6) Denham Place: A domestic building of late 17th-century date containing late 15th or early 16th-century woodwork in the chapel, and ornamental plaster ceilings, and tapestries in the living rooms.

Condition—Good.

29. DINTON.

Ecclesiastical:—(1) Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, with fine S. doorway of the 12th century.

Condition—Good.

30. DORNEY.

Secular:—(2) Dorney Court: An early 16th-century domestic building which retains the great hall, with screens and daïs. The original chimney stacks, the stone fireplaces, and some original doorways are also interesting.

Condition—Good.

31. DORTON.

Secular:—(2) Dorton House: Late Jacobean work, with much fine detail of 1626, especially in the ceilings and woodwork. The Boarstall Horn, preserved in the house, is a notable relic of mediæval land tenure.

Condition—Very good.

33. ELLESBOROUGH.

Secular

(3) Cymbeline's Mount: A mount and bailey castle standing on unusually high ground, with exceptionally small and strongly defended baileys.

Condition—Good.

(8) Chequers Court: A fine house of the second half of the 16th century.

Condition—Very good, much restored.

34. ETON.

Collegiate:—(1) The Church and College of The Blessed Mary of Eton: The group of buildings comprising the Church, the School and Cloister Buildings, is of exceptional interest as an illustration of the mediæval collegiate plan; the original buildings are still put to purposes akin to those for which they were originally designed. The most noticeable features are: in the church— the 15th-century lectern, the brasses of Provosts Bost and Lupton, and the screen of Lupton's Chapel; in the Upper and Lower School Buildings—the desks, seating, etc., and the carved names of the scholars from the 15th or 16th century to the present time; in the Cloister Buildings—the 17th-century bread bin and butler's desk, the late 17th-century panelling in the Audit Room and Election Chamber, and the 15th-century ironwork of the gallery doors.

Condition—Very good throughout, but much restored. Continuous renovation is gradually replacing the original detail by modern work in imitation of, or designed to accord with, the original work.

35. ETON WICK.

Secular:—(1) Bell Farm: The house preserves the complete plan of a timber-framed domestic structure of the 14th century.

Condition—Good; exterior much altered.

38. FINGEST.

Ecclesiastical:—(1) Parish Church of St. Bartholomew: Of early 12th-century date and unusual plan, with fine tower.

Condition—Good, but the S. wall of the nave leans outwards considerably.

42. GREAT AND LITTLE HAMPDEN.

Ecclesiastical:—(2) Little Hampden Church (dedication unknown): The two-storeyed north porch (15th-century), and the mural paintings (13th to 15th-century) are notable.

Condition—Generally good, the timbers of the porch are decayed.

43. GREAT AND LITTLE KIMBLE.

Pre-historic:—(2) Contour Camp on Pulpit Hill, with remarkable defences and striking position.

Condition—Fairly good, but thickly planted and overgrown.

Ecclesiastical:—(5) Church of All Saints: The early 14th-century wall paintings in the nave, and the 13th-century tiles, of the Chertsey Abbey type, are notable.

Condition—Good.

44. GREAT MARLOW.

Secular:—(3) Widmer Farm: Part of the farmhouse, with vaulted cellar, probably of late 13th-century date, was formerly a chapel.

Condition—Fairly good.

46. HADDENHAM.

Ecclesiastical:—(1) Parish Church of St. Mary: The tower is good work of early 13th-century date, and the 14th-century roof of the nave is of unusual design.

Condition—Good generally.

49. HARTWELL.

Secular:—(1) Hartwell House: The early 17th-century north front, with oriel window over the entrance, is remarkable; the grand staircase has fine oak carving.

Condition—Fairly good, but there are cracks in the north front, and some of the stonework is flaking away.

54. HIGH WYCOMBE.

Ecclesiastical:—(2) Parish Church of All Saints: The church is remarkable for its size and proportions, and for the 13th-century work in the windows of the N. chapel and the aisles.

Condition—Good; tower somewhat weatherworn.

Secular:—(4) The Hospital of St. John the Baptist: Interesting 12th-century remains.

Condition—In ruins, but well cared for and preserved.

55. HITCHAM.

Ecclesiastical:—(1) Parish Church of St. Mary: The early 12th-century work of the nave, and the 14th-century windows in the chancel and nave are especially noteworthy. The 14th-century glass in the windows of the chancel is unusually complete.

Condition—Good.

57. HORTON.

Ecclesiastical:—(1) Parish Church of St. Michael, with fine N. doorway of the 12th century.

Condition—Good.

Secular:—(8) House, now the Ostrich Inn: A good example of a domestic building of late 15th or early 16th-century date.

Condition—Good, much restored.

61. ICKFORD.

Ecclesiastical:—(1) Parish Church of St. Nicholas: An interesting church almost entirely of the 13th century.

Condition—Good; the building has been carefully restored.

63. IVER.

Ecclesiastical:—(1) Parish Church of St. Peter: The building is important for its pre-Conquest remains. Among the fittings, the 12th-century font, the 13th-century sedilia and piscina, and the remains of the 15th-century rood screen are noteworthy.

Condition—Generally good; stonework of 14th-century window in N. wall and 13th-century lancet window in S. wall of chancel, badly decayed; the 15th-century windows in aisles and bell-chamber damaged by restoration with Roman cement.

65. LANGLEY MARISH.

Ecclesiastical:—(1) Parish Church of St. Mary, with an oak colonnade dated 1630; the 16th and 17th-century library is unique in S. Buckinghamshire; the 14th-century piscina and sedilia are also notable.

Condition—Good.

Secular:—(7–8) Almshouses: Fine early 17th-century brickwork, (7) dated 1617.

Condition—Good.

69. LONG CRENDON.

Ecclesiastical:—(1) Parish Church of St. Mary: An interesting cruciform church of the 13th century.

Condition—Fairly good.

Secular:—(68) Notley Abbey: Founded early in the 12th century. The remains illustrate the plan of an Augustinian monastery.

Condition—Of the frater range, poor; of the western range, remains in good condition, incorporated in modern building; of guest-house, good, but altered and enlarged; of dove-cot, fairly good. The church and eastern range have been destroyed.

71. LUDGERSHALL.

Ecclesiastical:—(1) Parish Church of St. Mary, with remarkable detail of the 14th century.

Condition—Good, except roof of nave.

72. MARLOW URBAN.

Secular:—(2) The Old Parsonage, with 14th-century hall which has original windows and open timber roof.

Condition—Good; but the stonework of the 14th-century windows is out of repair.

73. MEDMENHAM.

Unclassified:—(10) Camp at Danesfield: Noticeable for its form and position.

Condition—Of N. and E. sides, fairly good; of W. side, almost obliterated.

74. MONKS RISBOROUGH.

Unclassified:—(27) Whiteleaf Cross: One of the two examples of turf-cuttings in the county.

Condition—Fairly good.

79. RADNAGE.

Ecclesiastical:—(1) Parish Church of St. Mary: Dating from c. 1200; of unusual plan. The 15th-century roof of the nave is noteworthy.

Condition—Good.

83. SLOUGH.

Ecclesiastical:—(1) Parish Church of St. Lawrence (Upton): Notable on account of the 12th-century remains. The 13th-century carved wooden arch in the S. aisle and the alabaster representation of the Trinity on the S. wall of the tower are both important.

Condition—Good.

86. STOKE POGES.

Ecclesiastical:—(1) Parish Church of St. Giles: Shows work ranging from the 12th to the 16th century; the 14th-century timber porch is of unusual interest. The base of the altar cross, of early 16th-century date, is noticeable.

Condition—Good.

91. UPPER WINCHENDON.

Ecclesiastical:—(1) Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalen: The 14th-century pulpit is of unusually early date, and the 16th-century brass of an Austin canon is also remarkable.

Condition—Of church, good; of pulpit, good substantially, but somewhat defaced.

93. WADDESDON.

Ecclesiastical:—(1) Parish Church of St. Michael: The church is unusually interesting on account of its history and the varied detail of the S. arcade of the nave. Among the fittings the 14th-century effigy and the brasses are noticeable.

Condition—Good.

97. WEST WYCOMBE.

Secular:—(4) The Church Loft: A timber-framed building of the 15th century.

Condition—Poor; all the walls need repair.

SEVERAL PARISHES.

Unclassified:—Grim's Dyke or Ditch: A most interesting earthwork which can still be traced from Hertfordshire, through Buckinghamshire into Oxfordshire.

Condition—Well preserved in parts.