Stantonbury, Buckinghamshire
Historical Description
Stantonbury, a parish in Bucks, 2 miles W from Newport Pagnell, and 3 NE from Wolverton station on the L. & N.W.R. main line. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Wolverton (R.S.O.) Acreage, 806; population of the civil parish, 29; of the ecclesiastical with New Bradwell, 2849. The manor and most of the land belong to Earl Spencer. The living is a vicarage, united with New Bradwell, in the diocese of Oxford; joint gross value, £175 with residence. Patron, Earl Spencer. The old church, now disused, is a small edifice of stone in the Norman style. There is a Baptist chapel. See also BRADWELL.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Buckinghamshire | |
| Ecclesiastical parish | Stanton-Bury St. Peter | |
| Hundred | Newport | |
| Poor Law union | Newport-Pagnell |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Churches
Church of England
St. Peter, Stanton Low (parish church)
The ancient church of St. Peter, consecrated in the year 950, and situated in the district commonly called STANTON LOW, is a small edifice of stone in the Norman style, consisting of chancel, nave and north porch: it Was formerly a monk's cell, and now, after the restoration work, seats 200 persons: it has a beautiful Norman arch separating the nave from the chancel; the entrance to the former north aisle, from which the blocking of 300 years has been removed, brought to light a row of arches dating from King Stephen (12th century), and resting upon a massive quadruple pedestal: the nave roof is of the 15th century, or earlier: until July 1st. 1909, it was the parish church; in that year it was discovered that the instrument transferring the rights and privileges of a parish church from St. Peter's to the modern church of St. James, situated at New Bradwell, had never been perfected, thus invalidating 1,000 marriages solemnised in the new church; the vicar at the time, the Rev Allan Newman Guest M.A. on the title of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and the patron, the 6th Earl Spencer, secured from the Government an Act of Parliament acquiring the status for all the marriages solemnised in the unlicensed church; St. Peter's has become, by virtue of the deed, the chapel of a conventional district.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Stantonbury from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stanton-Bury (St. Peter))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Buckinghamshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Stantonbury are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Buckinghamshire papers online:
Visitations Heraldic
A full transcript of the Visitation of Buckinghamshire, 1634 is online