A HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



The nave is of three bays with a north arcade 

 having two-centred arches of two chamfered orders, 

 with an undercut label and round columns with 

 moulded bell capitals which have alternately octagonal 

 and circular abaci. In the east respond is the 15th- 

 century opening to the rood-loft, and over the arcade 

 are three modern clearstory windows, each of two 

 trefoiled lights. In the south wall are two windows, 

 that to the east is of two uncusped lights under a 

 pointed head, and though very much restored appears 

 originally to have been of early 14th-century date. 

 The other window is quite modern, and is of two 

 trefoiled lights with tracery of ^th-century detail. 

 The south door is of late 14th-century date, and has 

 been much repaired. The jambs and two-centred 

 head have a wide hollow between two double ogees, 

 enriched with four-leaved flowers, and on the old 

 stones are scratched many almost indecipherable 

 1 5th and 16th-century inscriptions. The whole of 

 this south wall has been rebuilt, and some pieces of 

 14th-century window tracery are set in the outer face 

 of the wall. Two heads set in the wall are tradition- 

 ally known as those of two robbers executed at Hang 

 Hill, 2 miles away. 



The north aisle has also been rebuilt and has 

 in its north wall two modern two-light windows, and 

 between them a modern north door. To the east of 

 the aisle is a modern arch to the vestry, and at the 

 west a modern two-light window, a few old stones 

 being re-used in its splay. 



The tower arch is two-centred, of two chamfered 

 orders dying into flat responds, and appears to be late 

 13th-century work. The tower itself is of three 

 stages with an embattled parapet, and has been com- 

 pletely rebuilt in recent years with the use of much 

 of its old material. There are modern single belfry 

 openings and a modern west window of one cinque- 

 foiled light. 



The modern south porch is of wood upon a dwarf wall. 



The font is circular, and though much restored is 

 of 13th-century date, with a fluted bowl and a band 

 of heavy foliage running round the rim. 



The roof of the chancel is modern, but those of the 

 nave and aisle are of I 5th-century date. The seating 

 and rood screen are modern, but there is a late I jth- 

 century altar table in the north aisle. There are no 

 monuments of interest in the church. 



The tower contains three bells : the treble by 

 Ellis and Henry Knight, 1675 ; the second by 



Chandler, 1693 ; and the tenor by the same founder, 

 1708. 



The only piece of silver plate is a small communion 

 cup, 8 in. high, of Elizabethan date. 



The first book of the registers contains baptisms, 

 marriages, and burials between the years 1653 and 

 1753. The second book contains baptisms and burials 

 between 1762 and 1781 ; and the third marriages and 

 baptisms between 1783 and 1812, and burials 

 between 1784 and 1812. 



The chapel of Buckland was origi- 

 ADrOWSQX nally dependent on the prebendal 

 church of Aylesbury, together with 

 the chapels of Bierton, Stoke Mandeville/ 3 and Quar- 

 rendon. It was separated with them from the mother 

 church in 1266," and the four chapels were given to 

 the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln. In 1294 the 

 vicarage of Bierton with the chapels of Stoke Mandeville, 

 Buckland, and Quarrendon was ordained," but in 1858 

 the chapels of Buckland and Stoke Mandeville were 

 separated from Bierton and formed into separate bene- 

 fices. In 1281 77 the lords of Buckland Manor, Roger 

 de Clifford and his wife Isabel, and Roger de Leyburn 

 and his wife Idonea, claimed the advowson of the 

 church of Buckland from the Bishop of Lincoln and 

 the Dean and Chapter. They maintained that their 

 ancestress Idonea the wife of Robert de Vipont had 

 presented a certain Robert le Esquier in the time of 

 Henry III to the church and he had been admitted, 

 and so they claimed that the right to present to the 

 benefice had descended to them. The bishop and 

 dean answered that the church of Buckland was a 

 chapel appurtenant to the church of Aylesbury, which 

 William Rufus had given to the church of St. Mary of 

 Lincoln, with the chapel of Buckland. They pre- 

 sented his charter and its confirmation by Edward I. 

 The result of the suit is not given, but the Dean and 

 Chapter presumably gained it, since they were in 

 peaceful possession in 1294 at the time of the ordina- 

 tion of the vicarage. They are still the patrons of 

 the living at the present day. 



There is a Wesleyan chapel at Buckland, built in 

 1831, and another at the hamlet of Buckland 

 Common, built in 1 860. 



Charity of William Hill see under 



CHARITIES Bierton. The annual sum of i 



received from the trustees is given to 



eight parishioners, and one overcoat is also given to 



one old man each year. 



" 8 See Bierton and Stoke Mandeville. 

 ? 4 Cal. Pat. 1313-17, p. 304. 



? 5 Line. Epis. Reg. Bp. Button's Int. ; 

 Rec. of Bucks, i, 233-5. 



'' Sheahan, Hist, and Tofog. of Bucks, 1 09. 

 "' De Banco R. 39, m. 67. 



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