Horsenden, Buckinghamshire
Historical Description
Horsenden, a parish in Bucks, on Icknield Street, near the boundary with Oxfordshire, half a mile WSW from Princes Bisborough station on the G.W.R. ' Post town and money order and telegraph office, Princes Risborough, under Tring. Acreage, 535; population, 39. The manor was held by Archbishop Morton, passed to the Cottons, the Denhams, the Pentons, and the Grnbbes, and went by sale in 1838 to the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. It now belongs to the Jaques family. The manor house (rebuilt in 1810) was garrisoned by Sir John Denham for Charles I. The living is a rectory, now united with the vicarage of Ilmer, in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £179. The church, a plain building of stone in the Perpendicular style, was rebuilt in 1765 and restored in 1869.
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 | Horsendon St. Michael | |
Hundred | Aylesbury | |
Poor Law union | Wycombe |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The parish register of baptisms dates from the year 1663; marriages, 1707; burials, 1637.
Churches
Church of England
St. Michael and All Angels (parish church)
The parish church of St. Michael and All Angels is a plain building of flint with stone dressings in the Perpendicular style, with a stone tower: the chancel (late 15th century) alone remains of the old church, the nave of which, having fallen into decay, was pulled down in 1765; the tower was demolished and re-erected in its present position, and other necessary alterations made at the expense of John Grubb esq, under a faculty from the Bishop of Lincoln. In 1869 the chancel was lengthened towards the east. Features of interest are the mural tablets to the Grubb family, who were lords of the manor from 1662 to 1841, including a memorial to Anne Daney, a Huguenot lady, exiled from France, who became the wife of John Grubb. There are also mural tablets in memory of Thomas Oliver Anderdon and his family, Leonard and Mary Clara Jaques, and a brass tablet to Agatha Goldingham: the east window is stained, and there are memorial windows to the Rev. W. E. Partridge and his wife, and to John Eustace and Julia Catherine Grubbe. The benches are of English oak with poppy heads; the lectern, reading-desk and pulpit are also of carved oak: the hexagonal font was shown in the Exhibition of 1851 and has emblematical carvings: there is an ancient chancel-screen, a piscina, and in the south wall a blocked "squint." There were originally three bells, of which only one remains, dated 1582: there are 50 sittings.
Civil Registration
Horsenden was in Wycombe Registration District from 1837 to 1934
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Horsenden from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Horsendon (St. Michael))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Buckinghamshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Horsenden 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