A HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



It has a plain chamfered outer arch and a square- 

 headed window on the west. 



The east bay of the south arcade has an obtusely 

 pointed arch of three chamfered orders and half- 

 octagonal responds with moulded capitals and bases, 

 while the second bay has plain splayed jambs without 

 capital or base and an arch of two chamfered orders. It 

 is roughly worked and of 16th-century date, the 

 eastern arch being of much better detail, c. 1330. To 

 the west of it a 14th-century window remains in the 

 wall, unglazed, and having lost its central mullion ; its 

 tracery is a 15th-century insertion, of two cinquefoiled 

 lights with a quatrefoil over. The west window of 

 the nave is of three cinquefoiled lights, contemporary 

 with the north window. The south aisle has an east 

 window of three trefoiled lights under a straight-lined 

 four-centred head, and south of it is a small image 

 bracket. To the north in the angle of the aisle is 

 a blocked square-headed recess which seems to have 

 been a squint to the chancel. The south and west 

 windows of the aisle are of the same character as the 

 east window, and all are of the 1 6th century, as is the 

 rather clumsy trefoilsd piscina recess at the south-east. 

 The south doorway seems to be 14th-century work 

 of the first half of the century, and has a continuous 

 casement moulding between two sunk chamfers with a 

 label, much patched with Roman cement. 



The bell-turret is covered with modern weatherboard- 

 ing and has a short spire ; in the belfry stage the beams 

 have a double hollow chamfer. All the wood fittings 

 of the church are modern, but in the south aisle is a 

 1 7th-century altar table ; the corbel for the south end 

 of the rood-loft remains. The altar is modern with a 

 white marble front elaborately carved in relief with the 

 journey to Calvary. 



In the south aisle is an altar tomb against the south 

 wall with a chamfered marble slab, evidently not in its 

 original position, and having indents of the brasses of a 

 man and his wife and one child, with four shields and 

 a marginal inscription. 



The font at the west end of the south aisle is 

 modern, octagonal with quatrefoiled panels on the 

 bowl. 



There are three bells, the treble blank, the second 

 apparently an alphabet bell with a blundered inscrip- 

 tion, and the third of 1621 by James Keene of 

 Woodstock. 



The plate consists of a chalice, paten, flagon, and alms- 

 dish, of plated ware and modern date. 



The first book of the registers contains entries from 

 1539 to 1805, the second being the marriage register 

 1754-1810, and the third the baptisms and burials for 

 1806-12. 



In the 1 4th century the advowson 

 ADVOWSQN of the church of Hulcott belonged to 

 the Graunts, 60 and from the heirs of 

 William Graunt it probably passed with the manor to 

 James Butler, Earl of Ormond. His grandson James, 

 Earl of Wiltshire, granted it to the Hospital of St. 

 Thomas of Aeon," in whose hands it remained till 

 the dissolution of the hospital in 1538." In that 

 year Benedict Lee presented to the rectory, by reason 

 of a grant from the Hospital of St. Thomas of Aeon, 65 

 but in the recital of two leases of the manor to Lee 

 the advowson is expressly excepted. 61 Still he may 

 have obtained a separate lease from the hospital. 

 Henry VIII granted the advowson of the rectory 

 to Richard Greenway, subject to the lease to Lee. 64 

 After Lee's death 66 his widow Joan held the advow- 

 son, she and her second husband, Michael Harcourt, 

 presenting to the rectory in 15 57." The advowson 

 was sold, together with the manor, to John Fountain, 68 

 and was held by the lords of the manor till 1741. 

 In 1 666 ra George Wyatt presented, presumably hav- 

 ing acquired the right for one time. Timothy Neale 

 presented in 1679,' and John Neale owned the 

 advowson in 1 7 1 9." It was not sold to Sir John 

 Fortescue Aland with the manor, but continued with 

 the Neales, who, however, did not hold it for long, 

 since in 1755 John Marriot presented." In 1768 

 the name of Edward Bangham occurs as patron, 71 

 but he probably held the presentation for one time 

 only. In 1776 ' 4 Thomas Marriot and his wife Jane 

 sold the advowson to Stephen Langston, who pre- 

 sented to the rectory in 1779 and 1790." The 

 Rev. Stephen Langston appears as the next patron in 

 1 803." Rebecca Langston, presumably his widow, 

 presented in 1817," and in 1819 John Brereton 

 appears to have become possessed of the advowson, 

 and was holding it about l847, 78 but before 1862 it 

 had passed to Dr. Kenny. 79 It was shortly afterwards 

 purchased by the Rothschilds, and Mr. Leopold de 

 Rothschild is now the patron of the living. 



There are no endowed charities in this parish. 



60 Feet of F. Bucks. Mich. 16 Edw. II; 

 Mich. 43 Edw. Ill ; Hil. 45 Edw. Ill; 

 East. 26 Hen. VI. 



61 Par!. R. (Rec. Com.), v, 257* ; vi, 

 6^a. 



M Dugdale, Man. vi, 646. 



63 Lipscomb, Hist, of Bucks, ii, 340. 



"Pat. 31 Hen. VIII, pt. 3,m. 14. 



65 Pat. 3 8 Hen. VIII.pt. 7. 



66 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), jrcv, 4. 



6 7 Lipscomb, Hist, of Bucks, ii, 34.0. 



68 Feet of F. Bucks. East, and Trin. 13 

 Eliz. 



M (P.R.O.) Inst. Bks. 1666. 



7 Ibid. 1679. 



71 Recov. R. Mich. 6 Geo. I. 



7' P.R.O. Inst. Bks. 1755. 



7 Ibid. 1768. 



7< Feet of F. Bucks. East. 16 Geo. HI. 



7 s P.R.O. Inst. Bks. 1770, 1790. 



7Ibid. 1803. 



77 Lipscomb, Hist, of Bucks, ii, 340. 



78 Ibid. 



,Hf.aJ Tofog. ofJ3uclts,i6j. 



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