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St Marys Church
Hob Uid: 344217
Location : Buckinghamshire Stoke Mandeville
Grid Ref : SP8381009430
Summary : Medieval church, redundant since 1886, demolished in 1966. Earthwork remains also of a Medieval moated site and possible deserted Medieval village.
More information : (SP 83810943 St Mary's Church (NAT) (Disused) (1) The old parish church of St Mary probably dated from the 12th with 13th - ?19th century work (2). It ceased to be used from 1886 when the new church was built (3) and was finally demolished in 1966 (4). There is a moat to the NW of the church (2) (3 sides of a probable moat appear on OS 25" 1878). Niven (3) mentions a moat still to be traced on all four sides of the churchyard, but suggests it could have been constructed for drainage purposes. According to Lipscomb (8) the original tower and north aisle appeared to have been demolished by violence but there were many moats and ditches nearly enclosing the site, but no particulars of their history had been preserved. The ground in the immediate vicintiy of the church is very undulating, and distinct traces of a moat and fishponds remain (5) two sides of a probable rectangular ditch being visible on A/Ps (6). A village existed near the church according to tradition and at some time prior to 1862 foundations of buildings and several skulls were found. (5). The site is listed by the DMV Research Group as being a former village, with migration the reason for desertion at an unknown date (7). A street pattern in the form of ditches is visible on A/Ps centred at SP 839 091 (6). The name 'Hallinges' at ? SP 838 095 was accepted by the Research Group in 1965 (9). (2-9) The foundations of St Mary's Church remain, but are obscured by overgrown mounds of tumbled masonry. The graveyard is in a ruinous state. The moated site to the NW of the church has been ploughed out without trace, as has the greater part of the DMV to the SE, with the sole exception of a dry, but moat-like, ditch with inner bank, centred at SP 83900933. This feature runs SE from a stream for 120.0m and then NE through a right angled corner for 50.0m to another stream. The ditch is 6.0m wide, 0.4m deep, the bank, 5.0m wide, 0.4m high. Surveyed at 1:2500. No traces of fishponds were seen, but rectangular areas of marshy ground portrayed on the OS 1:2500 at SP 83840935 and SP 83810931, now unsurveyable, may be sites of fishponds. (10)

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Source details : OS 6" 1960
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Source details : W Niven
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Source details : E C Rouse
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Source details : Bucks Herald 2.1.66
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Source details : History and Topography of Buckinghamshire 1862. 197-8 (Sheahan).
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Source details : RAF F22/82/995.0075-6 26.8.54
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Source details : Appendices A and C (Beresford & Hurst).
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Source details : History and Antiquities of Buckinghamshire 2 1847 449 (G Lipscomb).
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Source details : Beresford, Hurst &Sheail).
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Vol(s) : 13, 1965

Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Medieval
Display Date : Medieval
Monument End Date : 1540
Monument Start Date : 1066
Monument Type : Parish Church, Deserted Settlement, Moat
Evidence : Earthwork

Monument Period Name : Post Medieval
Display Date : Made redundant
Monument End Date : 1886
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Monument Type : Church
Evidence : Earthwork

Monument Period Name : 20th Century
Display Date : Demolished
Monument End Date : 1966
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Monument Type : Church
Evidence : Earthwork

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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SP 80 NW 31
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Relationship type : General association

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Associated Activities :
Activity type : EVALUATION
Start Date : 1990-01-01
End Date : 1990-12-31

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St Marys Church