Buckinghamshire Historic Churches

This lovely medieval church sits in a glorious countryside setting within one of the prettiest of the Chiltern villages. The first church here almost certainly predates the Norman Conquest, as evidenced by the beautifully carved Saxon font near the south door. The living was granted to Queen Matilda, wife of William the Conqueror, and was later held by King John in his role as Earl of Gloucester.
Hambleden, Buckinghamshire, England, RG9 6RX

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Heritage Highlight: Wonderful Saxon font, D'Oyley memorial, and 16th century Wolsey Altar.

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A very early example of Gothic Revival architecture, The Assumption church was designed in 1753 by Henry Keene for Sir William Lee, within the grounds of Lee's Hartwell House.
Hartwell House, Lower Hartwell, Hartwell, Buckinghamshire, England

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A superb Perpendicular Gothic church in a quiet countryside location. It is hard to imagine a more peaceful setting than that enjoyed by All Saints church in Hillesden. It is as if the church has wandered off from its siblings during a game of hide and seek, gotten lost, and never found its way back.

Church End, Hillesden, Buckinghamshire, England, MK18 4DB

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Heritage Highlight: Beautifully fanciful Perpendicular architecture, and excellent 16th century memorials to members of the Denton family.

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Most people come to Hughenden Valley to see Hughenden Manor, home of the Victorian politician and author, Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfield, but the lovely little church of St Michael and All Angels is worth a visit as well. The church lies at the bottom of the hill that rises up to the manor house, just inside the manor gates.
Hughenden, Buckinghamshire, England

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Heritage Highlight: The memorial to Benjamin Disraeli by Queen Victoria is the only known one from a reigning monarch to a commoner.

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St Mary's is a beautiful 13th-century church boasting an outstanding angel roof, medieval brasses of wealthy merchants, and the 14th-century effigy of a man thought to be Peter de Chaceport, rector from 1241. The effigy lies in a tomb recess that may have been used as an Easter Sepulchre.
Church Road, Ivinghoe, Buckinghamshire, England, LU7 9EW

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Heritage Highlight: 14th-century effigy of Peter de Chaceport

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Jordans Friends' Meeting House has been described as the 'Westminster Abbey of Quakerism'. Perhaps the most famous of all Quaker Meeting Houses, Jordans was built in 1688. It is a simple two-storey brick building beneath a hipped roof, containing a cottage for a caretaker, with stables behind. In the burial ground is the gave of William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania.
Welders Lane, Jordans, Buckinghamshire, England, HP9 2SN

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Heritage Highlight: One of the oldest Quaker meeting houses in Britain, burial place of William Penn

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A delightful church just north of Princes Risborough, famous for its series of exceptional early 14th-century wall paintings. The church itself is very small and consists of only a nave and chancel with a small west double bellcote and a south porch. It dates to the 13th century or earlier.
Ellesborough Road, Little Kimble, Buckinghamshire, England, HP17 0XR

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Heritage Highlight: 14th century wall paintings

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An early 12th-century church boasting a very nice series of 13th and 14th-century wall paintings mixed with later 17th-century paintings. Though the oldest parts of the current building date to the 12th century, there was a church on this site since about AD 975.
Little Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England, HP7 0QY

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Heritage Highlight: Medieval wall paintings covering several centuries.

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A large 13th-century church in an idyllic village setting. The historical highlight is the gilded tomb of Sir John Dormer (d. 1627) and a 14th-century encaustic tile with the earliest known example in Britain of the Three Hares symbol (three rabbits sharing one set of ears).
High Street, Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire, England, HP18 9AL

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Heritage Highlight: 14th-century encaustic tile depicting Three Hares with one set of ears

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The first church at Medmenham was established about AD 650, possibly by Birinus, the 1st Bishop of Dorchester. This was replaced by the current building in 1160, under the patronage of Hugh II, Baron de Bolebec of Bucks. Baron Hugh also founded Medmenham Abbey at the same time.
A4155, Medmenham, Buckinghamshire, England, SL7 2HF

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