History in Structure

Church of St Mary and the Holy Cross

A Grade I Listed Building in Quainton, Buckinghamshire

  • Quainton Church

  • St Mary & Holy Cross: c14 & c15 Decorated & Perpendicular church heavily restored by William White c.1872

  • St Mary & Holy Cross: view from the south showing straightheaded Perpendicular cusped windows; clerestory added c15

  • St Mary & Holy Cross: c14 nave with octagonal piers & double chamfered arches

  • St Mary & Holy Cross: late c14 restored chancel with coloured tiles & large east window

  • St Mary & Holy Cross: saints from part of c15 rood screen dado in East Anglian style

  • St Mary & Holy Cross: memorial to Richard Brett, d.1637, & wife Alice; one of the translators of the Authorised version of the Bible

  • St Mary & Holy Cross: inscription from the memorial to Richard Brett, d.1637

  • St Mary & Holy Cross: memorial to Richard Pigott, d.1685, & wife Anne (nee Harrington), d.1686, erected c.1735

  • St Mary & Holy Cross: inscription from the memorial to Richard Pigott, d.1685

  • St Mary & Holy Cross: monument to Richard Winwood of Ditton & Quainton, d.1688, & wife Anne (nee Reade of Barton Court), d.1694

  • St Mary & Holy Cross: memorial in tower to Fleetwood Dormer, d.1639, sons John, d.1679, & Fleetwood, d.1696

  • St Mary & Holy Cross: memorial to Susan Dormer (nee Brawne), d.1673, by William Stanton, busts & arms above

  • St Mary & Holy Cross: memorial to John Dormer 1st Baronet of Lee Grange, d.1675, set below memorial to his wife Susan

  • St Mary & Holy Cross: details from the memorial to John & Susanna Dormer, 1675

  • St Mary & Holy Cross: memorial to Robert Dormer of Lee Grange, d.1726, justice of the Common Pleas & wife Mary Blake, d.1728

  • St Mary & Holy Cross: inscription from the memorial to Robert Dormer, d.1726

  • St Mary & Holy Cross: inscription from the memorial to Robert Dormer, d.1726, including children's marriages

  • St Mary & Holy Cross: early child brass to Joan Plessey, c.1360

  • St Mary & Holy Cross: John Spence, 1485; rector in processional vestments

  • St Mary & Holy Cross: Margery, nee Iwardby, d.1509, wife of Ralph Verney of Pendley; son & three daughters

  • St Mary & Holy Cross: Elizabeth, wife of John Chester, 1593

  • Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Holy Cross

  • Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Holy Cross

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Entry Name: Church of St Mary and the Holy Cross

Listing Date: 21 December 1967

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1319285

English Heritage Legacy ID: 42200

ID on this website: 101319285

Location: Holy Cross and St Mary's Church, Quainton, Buckinghamshire, HP22

County: Buckinghamshire

Civil Parish: Quainton

Built-Up Area: Quainton

Traditional County: Buckinghamshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Buckinghamshire

Church of England Parish: Quainton

Church of England Diocese: Oxford

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