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September 23, 2019

Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire – Christ the Cornerstone

Driving home from High Wycombe on Saturday 18 August we stopped in Milton Keynes, and went to the Church of Christ the Cornerstone – SP 850 388. It wasn’t that busy on a Saturday morning – the café wasn’t open – but that part of MK seems to be more offices than anything else. The website is at http://www.cornerstonemk.co.uk/. We looked at buying our first house in MK around 1985 – I remember reading the brochures one lunchtime while I was working in London – and we have visited this church once before. It was described as MK’s Cathedral,...
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September 23, 2019

Hughenden, Buckinghamshire – St Michael and All Angels

On Friday 17 August 2019 we drove out of High Wycombe and spent the morning at Hughenden, the National Trust property which was the home of Benjamin Disraeli. Julie enjoyed the author links – although neither of us (and most of the visitors) have never read anything by Disraeli. There was a good exhibition upstairs about his life, politics and relationship with Queen Victoria. The best bit was the exhibition about the house in WW2 – bomber command had done all their map work there. The NT didn’t know this until they heard a visitor talking to his grandchild...
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September 23, 2019

High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire – All Saints’

Thursday 16 August 2019. We are in High Wycombe, having been to see Taming of the Shrew at Stratford last night, and off to see Evita at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre later today. We went for a walk into the town. All Saints’ church was wonderful. It’s at SU865930 and has a website – http://www.allsaintshighwycombe.org/ . Proper, inclusive, grown-up Christianity, which includes heritage, music, arts and spirituality on its website. It opens its building with the Mustard Seed café – they were very welcoming indeed. Disabled access was very easy – loos too. I only had my phone...
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November 11, 2015

Penn, Buckinghamshire – Holy Trinity

We navigated our way to Holy Trinity church in Penn. Their grid reference is  SU916933, and they have a website. John Betjeman apparently observed that “within and without, the church has the charm of an old water-colour”. The Nave is C12, the south aisle and tower early C14, and the Lady Chapel was built in brick in the 1730s. The Clerestory and roof date circa 1400. The rough-cast was removed in 1952 to show the flint and the stone. The clock has one hand, like Whalton in Northumberland, and the church door is lovely. Inside are some nice modern...
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November 10, 2015

Amersham, Buckinghamshire – St Michael & All Angels

Amersham on the Hill was built when the Metropolitan Line came to town. The best known film of this is John Betjeman’s Metroland – which you can watch here. There is also a 1910 film of the line here. Here is the Underground station, with a Chiltern Line train en route for Marylebone. Land was obtained for an Anglican church in 1919, but they soon decided the plans they had were too expensive – nothing changes! The church of St Michael and All Angels was founded a while ago, but this building celebrates its 50th anniversary next year. Four years...
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May 21, 2014

Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire – All Saints’

Monday 12 May and we’re en route from Oli & Kati near Kettering to Deb & Larry in Oxford. We arranged to meet Geoff & Anne at Claydon House, a National Trust property, rebuilt between 1757 and 1771. First we walked along the front of the house, and pushed up the ramp into church.  The first Rector was John de Blarewich in 1251, and the Nave is C13 “much restored”. In 1509 the Chancel was rebuilt during a lease of 100 years granted by the Verneys to the Giffords – rebuilding the chancel took ten years. There was a restoration under George...
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