Church of St Dunstan
CHURCH OF ST DUNSTAN, BURTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1125811
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Dunstan
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST DUNSTAN, BURTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1125811
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Dunstan
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST DUNSTAN, BURTON LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST DUNSTAN, BURTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Princes Risborough
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 81267 04419
Details
SP 8104 RINCES RISBOROUGH BURTON LANE (MONKS RISBOROUGH) 8/150 Church of St. Dunstan
21.6.55
GV I
Parish church. Early C14 W. tower, remainder late C14-C15 with C19 vestry/ organ chamber to N. of chancel. Restored 1863. Flint with stone dressings, tiled chancel and S. porch, lead roofs to nave, aisles, tower and N. transept. W. tower of 3 stages has moulded plinth and strings, angle buttresses, and parapet with carved head corbel table. 2-light traceried openings to bell-chamber, lancets below to N. and S., 2-light traceried window and moulded doorway to W., the doorway with carved head stops to hoodmould. Square projecting stair turret at S.E. corner. Nave has late C15 clerestory, with 4 bays of 3-light cusped windows and restored battlemented parapet. N. aisle has small C20 2-light cusped window at W. end, C20 3-light cusped window to right, 3-light Perpendicular window to left, and moulded doorway. S. aisle has chamfered plinth, dripmould, and 2 2-light traceried windows, the right with moulded surround and carved head stops. Internally this window has moulded arches and inner arch on slender shafts with moulded capitals. C19 3-light window to E. Moulded S. doorway with stoup to right. C15 gabled porch has restored arch with moulded chalk spandrels, cusped blind window above, and single cusped lights to sides. N. transept has restored 3-light Perpendicular windows with carved head hoodmould stops to N. and E. Similar windows to N. and S. of chancel, the S. side also with small door, completely C19, the E. end with C19 3-light traceried window. Interior: triple chamfered arch to tower with small arched opening to chamber above. Nave has clunch arcades with 4 bays of double hollow chamfered arches, broach stopped, on octagonal piers with moulded capitals, the N.E. arch to transept which has similar arch to N. aisle. Central spandrel of N. arcade has cusped niche. Nave, aisles and transept have good C15 roofs with moulded beams and traceried spandrels, the transept and N. side of nave with carved head stone corbels. Arched openings to rood loft stairs at N.E. corner of nave. Stone bracket carved with foliage behind pulpit, another stone bracket with carved head in N. transept. Transept also has clunch niche with remains of gabled canopy and finials. Wide chancel arch with double hollow chamfer. Remainder of chancel totally restored. S. porch has C15 roof with moulded beams, queen strut trusses and tracery panels to tie beams, one with a carved head. Fittings: C12 font with fluted basin and carved frieze; restored C15 screen with 5 moulded arches and restored painted figures in lower traceried panels; 4 C15 bench ends in nave, the poppyheads with carved figures and faces; medieval S. door; medieval floor tiles at E. end of nave and in transept; other fittings C19. C18 marble wall tablets, C15 brasses with half-figures of man and wife in S. aisle. RCHM I p. 257-9.
Listing NGR: SP8126504419
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 46421
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume One South, (1912)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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