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L I T T L E HORWOOD.

BUCK ING H AM SHIKE

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the year 1568. The living is a vicarage, net yearly barley and roots. The area is 1,948 acres; rateable
value £195. in the gift of the Church Patronage Society, value, ¿2,961; population in 1911, 293.
and held since 1007 by the Rev. Louis George Pett Wood End is a part of this parish.
Liesching. Frederick Anthony Denny esq. is lay rector Parish Clerk, Jesse Grainge.
and impropriator, and resides at Horwood House, a Post Office.— George Ash, sub-postmaster. Letters
through Winslow, Bucks, arrive at 6.35 a.m. & 6.35
modern mansion, surrounded by pleasant grounds. The
church land consists of about 3acres, now let for about p.m.; sundays at 8 a.m.; dispatched at 6.35 a.m. &
£6 a year. Here is a Baptist chapel, erected in 1867, 6.30 p.m. ; sundays at 9.45 a.m. Winslow, 3 miles
distant, is the nearest money order office & Great
and seating about 100 persons. William Selby-Lowndes
esq. who is lord of the manor, and Frederick Anthony Horwood. i f miles distent, the nearest telegraph office
Denny esq. are the principal landowners. The soil is Elementary School, founded in 1872, on a site given by
gravel and clay;subsoil, clay and gravel, but varies the late P. Dauncey esq. (d. 1888), for 67 children;
William Arthur Davies, master
greatly in manyplaces. The chief crops are wheat.
Jolly Wm. Richard, insurance agent
p r iv a t e r e s id e n ts .
Church Henrietta (Miss), grocer
King Walter William, farmer
Denny Frederick Anthony,Horwood ho'Goode Christopher, farmer
King William, farmer
Liesching Rev. Louis George Pettj Grainge Gerrard, carpenter
King William Joseph, shopkeeper
1Grainge Jesse, farmer
(vicar). Vicarage
Gunthorpe Joseph Josiah, brick ma Lawrence Herbert, farmer
COM M ERCIAL.
Spiers William, farmer
Hanson John, farmer, Wood End
Ash Mary (Mrs.) & Harry, farmers Horwood Sarah Ann (Mrs.), Shoulder Tofield George, farmer
Tompkins Thomas J. farmer
of Mutton P.H
Ash Robert, blacksmith
Illing Matthew, farm bailiff to Fredk. Vickers Thomas, farmer
Bennett William, farmer
White George, Old Crown P.H
Chapman Gains, farmer. Manor farm; Anthony Denny esq
H T J G H E N D E N
is a widely scattered parish, in a erected by the subscribers to the Hughenden Memorial
picturesque spot surrounded by a woodland of extra- Fund: the mural paintings in the sanctuary, also formordinary beauty, about 2 miles north from High Wy- ing part of the memorial to the late Earl, and conoombe station on the main line of the Great Western tributed from the same fund, occupied a number of
and Great Central joint railway, in the Mid division skilled artists for a considerable period, and may
of the county, partly in the hundred of Desborough and worthily be ranked among the choicest specimens of
partly in the liberty of Brands Fee, which latter lies ecclesiastical art; they include the figures of the four
within the hundred of Aylesbury, second division of Des- greater prophets and of the Evangelists, with other
borough petty sessional division, union and county court figures illustrative of the nine orders of ange 3, e
district of High Wycombe, rural deanery of Wycombe, iwhole being surrounded and inclosed by grace y
archdeaconry ofBuckingham and diocese of Oxford. The arranged designs of Eastern fruits and owers . on
church of St. Michael and All Angels, which dated the south side of the church a very fine window has
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almost entirely rebuilt in 1874-5. 1880-1 and 1890, under of Oxford: the decoration of the south wall of the
the direction of the late Sir A. W. Blomfield A.R.A. at a chancel, representing the Adoration of the Magi, has
total cost of ¿8,6x2, of which £5,350 was contributed also been completed. In the chancel, and near to the
by the late James Searight esq. of Lancaster Gate, seat formerlv occupied by Lord Beaconsfield, is the
erected by Her late Majesty Queen Victoria;
Hyde Park, London; the church consists of chancel, monument
with chapel, nave of three bays, north aisle, south this is of white Sicilian marble, with a central quatreporch and an embattled tower at the north-west angle, foiled panel, inclosinga profile portraitin reliefofthelate
arl by Mr. R. C. Belt; above are the arms of the
with low pyramidal roof and containing 8 bells, two E
peer, and below, on a tablet surrounded by a
of which date from the time of Edward III. two from deceased
wreath
of oak leaves, beautifully wrought m marble,
that of Charles II. the remaining four having been
cast in the reign of Queen Victoria: the Toof throughout is the inscription following:—
is new; the chancel has been entirely re-arranged
TO
and is separated from the nave by an open wroughtTH E D EAR AND HONORED M EM ORY
iron screen : there are memorial windows to Sir William
OF
Norris Young. 5th bart. lieut. 23rd Royal Welsh
B E N J A M IN , E A R L O F B E A C O N S F IE L D ,
Fusiliers, killed at the Alma, Sept. 20th, 1854, aged
T H I S M E M O R IA L IS P L A C E D B Y
21, and his brother, Sir George John Young. 6th bart.
H IS G R A T E F U L S O V E R E I G N A N D F R I E N D ,
R . A . who also died i
n the Crimea, Oct. 22nd, 1854, aged
V IC T O R I A R . I .
1 9 ; to Lucy, wife of T. J
. Reynolds esq. ; Mr. and Mrs. “ K IN G S L O V E H IM T H A T S P E A K E T H R I G H T .” — P r o v e r b s X V i. 1 3 .
Norris, of the Manor House; James Williams, his wife
F E B R U A R Y 27, 1882.
Henrietta Catherine; Ann, wife of James WalkeT
Williams, of High Wycombe, and to James and Sarah By command of the late Queen, the banner and other
Elizabeth Searight and their son James: in the north insignia of the Garter from the Earl of Beaconsfields
aisle is a stained window given by Sir Samuel Wilson stall in St. George’s chapel, Windsor, have been re­
to commemorate the escape of Queen Victoria from an moved to Hughenden, and placed over the seat formerly
attempt on her life at Windsor. March 2nd, 1882; in occupied by ''him in the chancel, which is marked by
the chapel are several extremely interesting monuments an inscribed brass: the family vault of Lord Beacons­
to the de Montfori and Wellosburne families, and in­ field, in which his body is laid, is at the eastern end
cluding one in the centre of a recumbent cross-legged of the De Montfort chapel, which adjoins the chancel,
knight in chain armour, carved in stone and supposed and outside the church and against the church wall
to represent Richard, son of Simon de Montfort: at the are three granite slabs commemorating Mary Ann
east end against the wall are two rudely carved figures Disraeli, Viscountess Beaconsfield, wife of Rt. Hon. B.
in armour, one of whom holds a mace, and also the DisTaeli, d. Dec. 15th, 1872; James Disraeli esq. third
effigy of a knight of the 14th cent. : on the north side son of Isaac Disraeli, d. Dec. 3rd. 1868, and Sarah,
is the figure of a warrior holding in the right hand a relict of James Brydges Williams, d. Nov. nth, 1863,
sword and in the left a cross, and at the south-west who bequeathed her property to the Earl, and was
angle a cadaver in a shroud, on the breast of which here interred by her own wish: in 1892 a pulpit 01
rests a figure emblematic of the departing spirit: there marble and alabaster was erected as a memorial to the
is one good brass to Robert Thurloe. priest, 1493 • a late James Searight esq. previously mentioned: the
monument to John L-me. 1621. with kneeling effigy, and •¿tone font is Late Norman and dates from about the
other memorials to Ellen (Merret), wife of the. R'ght 13th century : there are 324 sittings, about 50 of whicn
Hon. Henry. 1st Earl*Convngbam. 1816. by G. Garrard are appropriated. The register dates from the year
R V. ; to the family of Widmer. 1782-1803. former 1559. The living is a vicarage, net income £i9i.-witn
owners of Rockhols. and to Sampson Roe. 1786: since residence, in the gift of Coningsby Ralph Disraeli esq.
the death of the Earl of Beaconsfield. April TQth. x88x. D L. and held since 1903 by the Rev. Arthur Lewis
the interior walls of the chancel have been exquisitely Whitfeld M.A. of Magdalen College, Oxford. There is
decorated, several fine stained windows inserted, and a Mission hall and a Primitive Methodist chapel at
other valuable gifts bestowed upon the church as CRYERS HILL. The Dormer family gave the pansn
memorials to that illustrious statesman : of these, the four cottages near the churchyard, and Ellen, CouI^es?
first, in order of time, consisted of two bells, pre­ Convngham, who owned the manor in 1806, bequeathed
sented by Robert Warner esq. and dedicated August ¿100, "but this ¿100 was expended by a vote of the
20th, 1881, thus completing the peal of 8 bells: the vestrv in 1845 on the repairs of the almshouses: tne
magnificent east window was erected by Lord Rowton, onlv 'fund now existing for their repair is the interest
Sir Nathaniel (now Lord) Rothschild and the late of ¿70, vested in the Charity Commissioners, and tne
Sir Philip Rose bart. : the stained west window was interest of ¿500 to be paid to the poor residing m