St. Mary, Great Brickhill, Buckinghamshire

Description

The parish church of St. Mary is a building of stone of the Early English and Decorated periods, consisting of chancel with side chapels, nave of four bays, aisles, south porch and a central tower with turret containing 6 very fine bells and a clock: in the chancel is a small piscina: there are numerous tablets to the Duncombe family, as well as to the families of Barton, Pauncefoot and Chase: the roofs of the church and chancel were heightened and the whole fabric thoroughly restored in 1867, chiefly at the cost of Sir Philip Duncombe Pauncefort-Duncombe bart. (d. 1890), in whose memory his widow presented the organ: there are 300 sittings.

Church Records

The parish register dates from the year 1558