Saunderton, Buckinghamshire
Historical Description
Saunderton, a parish in Bucks, 1 mile SW from Princes Risborough station on the Wycombe, Aylesbury, Thame, and Oxford branch of the G.W.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Princes Risborongh. Acreage, 725; population, 373. The manor belongs to Lord Dormer, who is also chief landowner. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £275 with residence. Patron, Magdalen College, Oxford. The church, which was restored and almost rebuilt in 1888, is a building of flint and stone chiefly in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, and bell-turret of wood. It has a stained E window and an ancient font. The workhouse of the Wycombe union, a large building of flint and brick erected in 1843, with capacity for 450 inmates, stands within this parish.
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 | Saunderton St. Mary | |
Hundred | Desborough | |
Poor Law union | Wycombe |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The parish register dates from the year 1636.
Churches
Church of England
SS. Mary and Nicholas (parish church)
There were originally two churches, but these were combined in the 15th century, and the present church is dedicated to SS. Mary and Nicholas; it is an edifice of flint and stone, chiefly in the Decorated style, and consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a low wooden turret at the west end containing 3 bells: two doorways of the Early English period are now blocked: the chancel has a piscina and a stained east window erected in 1888: the font, the basin of which is adorned with fluting and other ornaments, probably dates from the end of the 12th century: in the nave is the brass half-effigy of a female, c. 1430, on which is the following inscription, Hic jacet Isabella Saunterdon filia Willielmi Saunterdon et Soror Bernardi Saunterdon, orate pro anima ajus: the church was thoroughly restored and almost rebuilt during the period 1888-91, and affords 75 sittings.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Saunderton was in Wycombe Registration District from 1837 to 1934
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Saunderton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Saunderton (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Buckinghamshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Saunderton 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