Tyringham with Filgrave, Buckinghamshire
Historical Description
Tyringham-with-Filgrave, a parish in Bucks, on the river Ouse, by which it is bounded on the N, W, and S, 4 miles NNW of Newport Pagnell station on the Wolverton and Newport Pagnell branch of the L. & N.W.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Newport Pagnell. Acreage, 1757 of land with 35 of water; population, 155. The manor, with all the land, belongs to the Tyringham family. Tyringham House, the seat of the family, is a fine mansion of stone standing in a park of about 100 acres. The living is a double rectory in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £344 with residence. The church, rebuilt with the exception of the tower in 1871, is a building of stone consisting of chancel, nave, organ chamber, chantry, S porch, and a western tower, believed to date from the early part of the 12th century. It has several very ancient brasses.
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 | Tyrringham St. Peter | |
| Hundred | Newport | |
| Poor Law union | Newport-Pagnell |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The parish register dates from the year 1629.
Churches
Church of England
St. Peter (parish church)
The church of St. Peter, situated on rising ground in Tyringham Park, is a small edifice of stone, rebuilt, with the exception of the tower, in 1871, in a modern style of Gothic, and since thoroughly restored at a cost of £2,000, defrayed by the widow of W. B. Tyringham esq.; it consists of chancel, nave, organ chamber chantry, north porch and a western tower containing 5 bells: the tower, which is the only remaining portion of the ancient church, dates from about 1200; the upper part is Perpendicular work of the time of Henry VII.: there are brasses to Mary, wife of Anthony Catesby, and daughter of John Tyringham, 1508, and a scroll inscribed Domine accipe spiritum meum, the effigy and the emblem of the Holy Trinity, to which it belonged, being now lost; dated c. 1500; both these are now in the chantry; also a brass of a knight wearing a tabard with the arms of Tyringham, c. 1490, and other brasses are recorded here to Thomas Tyringham esq. 1595, and his wife Parnell (Goodwin), 1594: there is a marble panel with a decoration of laurel leaves on the west wall over the archway, erected as a memorial to the men of the parish who lost their lives in the Great War, 1914-18: the church contains sittings for 150 people.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Tyringham with Filgrave was in Newport Pagnell Registration District from 1837 to 1935
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Tyringham with Filgrave from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Tyrringham (St. Peter))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Buckinghamshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Tyringham with Filgrave 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