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Maids Moreton, Buckinghamshire

Historical Description

Maids Moreton, a parish in Buckinghamshire, on the river Ouse and the Buckingham Canal, 1 mile NE of Buckingham town and railway station. It has a post office under Buckingham; money order and telegraph office, Buckingham. Acreage, 1366; population, 444. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £245 with residence. The church was built in 1450 by two maiden sisters, daughters of Lord Peover; took thence the name of Maids Moreton, and gave that name to the parish; is a beautiful specimen of the Perpendicular style; comprises nave and chancel, with two porches and W embattled tower; has a very curious W door, "a projecting panelled battlement, supported by rich fan-tracery, springing from the jamb mouldings;" and contains a Gothic screen, three sedilia, a fine font, and several ancient brasses and monuments. The church was thoroughly restored in 1887. There is also a small Wesleyan chapel. The manor house is a modern building of red brick in the

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyBuckinghamshire 
Ecclesiastical parishMaids' Moreton St. Edmund 
HundredBuckingham 
Poor Law unionBuckingham 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

The parish register dates from the year 1558.


Churches

Church of England

St. Edmund (parish church)

The church of St. Edmund was built about the year 1450 by two maiden sisters of the Peyvre or Peover family, from which circumstance the village takes its name; it is a very elegant structure in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, north and south porches, and an embattled western tower containing 6 bells: the windows were once filled with stained glass, the greater part of which was demolished by the soldiery of Cromwell, who otherwise damaged and profaned the building: there are still remains of paintings on the south wall of the chancel, that being a representation of the Last Supper, under a richly carved canopy; the figures, however, have been sadly defaced: the roofs of the porches and tower entrance and vestry room are richly grained in stone: the font, which is Norman, consists of a circular basin, ornamented with carved work on the outer side, and supported on a plain octagonal base: in the middle of the nave is a large marble slab on which were the effigies of the maiden sisters in brass, but these being lost new brasses were relaid by Miss Andrewes in 1886: there are several ancient monuments and brasses, and on the north side is a plain monument of white marble in memory of the Hon. Mrs. Penelope Verney, first wife of the Hon. Richard Lord Willoughby de Broke, who died August 31, 1718: There is also a brass to Frederick Joseph Dancer, who died at Mafeking, South Africa, in 1901, and one to the Rev. B. W. Johnstone M.A. rector 1877-1903, placed in 1906. The chancel was restored and beautified in 1882, when the whole of the floor was relaid, and the rood screen and canopied sedilia, one of the chief features of the church, carefully renovated: the old stained glass existing in various windows was collected and incorporated in the east window, but in 1898 a new stained east window was erected to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria: the interior was also reseated with open oak benches in 1892, and a new carved oak pulpit presented by Dr. Edward Harold Browne, Bishop of Winchester (1873-91), as a memorial of his parents, who are buried under the tower: the restoration of the nave, begun at the same time, was completed in 1887: a stone tablet was placed in the church in 1920 bearing the names of twelve men of the parish who fell in the Great War, 1914-18: there are 220 sittings.


Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Maids Moreton was in Buckingham Registration District from 1837 to 1935


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Maids Moreton from the following:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Buckinghamshire is available to browse.


Maps

Online maps of Maids Moreton are available from a number of sites:


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

DistrictAylesbury Vale
CountyBuckinghamshire
RegionSouth East
CountryEngland
Postal districtMK18
Post TownBuckingham

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