St. Mary, Radnage, Buckinghamshire

Description

The church of St. Mary, erected early in the 12th century, is a building of flint and rubble stone, chiefly in the Early English style, with traces of Norman work, and consists of chancel, nave, south porch and a central tower containing four bells: the nave retains a good Perpendicular roof, but most of the windows are Decorated: the font is Anglo-Saxon: there are brasses to William Syer, rector 1605, and Jane his wife, and to William Este, 1534, his wife and children: on the north wall is a marble tablet erected in memory of the men of the parish who fell in the Great War, 1914-18: in the chancel there is a piscina and hagioscope: in 1935 Professor Tristram found what he considered to be the oldest medireval wall paintings in Buckinghamshire: the church affords 115 sittings.

Church Records

The parish register dates from the year 1574.