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Church of St Michael and All Angels

A Grade II* Listed Building in Longwick-cum-Ilmer, Buckinghamshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.7194 / 51°43'9"N

Longitude: -0.8526 / 0°51'9"W

OS Eastings: 479356

OS Northings: 202919

OS Grid: SP793029

Mapcode National: GBR C2Q.18K

Mapcode Global: VHDVQ.51LR

Plus Code: 9C3XP49W+QW

Entry Name: Church of St Michael and All Angels

Listing Date: 21 June 1955

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1332032

English Heritage Legacy ID: 46364

ID on this website: 101332032

Location: St Michael's Church, Horsenden, Buckinghamshire, HP27

County: Buckinghamshire

Civil Parish: Longwick-cum-Ilmer

Traditional County: Buckinghamshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Buckinghamshire

Church of England Parish: Bledlow with Saunderton and Horsenden

Church of England Diocese: Oxford

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Description


SP 70 SE LONGWICK-CUM-ILMER HORSENDEN

4/93 Church of St. Michael
and All Angels

21.6.55.

GV II*

Parish church. C15 chancel, restored and extended to E. C19. Nave
demolished and replaced by small W. tower 1765. Tower is of semi-
dressed stone with flint galleting; chancel flint with stone dressings.
Lead roofs. Tower is of 2 stages with battlemented parapet, arched
openings to bell-chamber and 2-light traceried window over it, door.
All tower openings have Tudor hoodmoulds. Chancel has diagonal
buttresses, chamfered plinth and moulded parapet, each side with a
central carved gargoyle, reworked C19. 2 bays of 3-light Perpendicular
windows, those to S. restored c.1980 in plastic stone. Similar E.
window completely restored C19. Interior: small arch to tower;
blocked squint to S.; piscina with hollow-chamfered arch; C19 sedilia
and roof. Fittings: early C16 screen, restored,with cusped open
panels, the spandrels carved with rosettes and lion-heads, now set
against W. wall; C19 reredos, octagonal font and stained glass; some
reset medieval floor tiles. Monuments: Marble wall tablets to
Bashewell Grubb 1666, John Grubb 1700 and Anne Grubb, a Huguenot exile,
1721.

RCHM I p.205-6


Listing NGR: SP7935602919

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