Building record 0463800000 - ST BARTHOLOMEW'S CHURCH, FINGEST

Summary

Medieval and post-medieval parish church of St Bartholomew at Fingest, restored in the nineteenth century.

Protected Status/Designation

Listed Building (I) 1125708: CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW (DBC5187)

Map

Find a placename, postcode or grid reference

Map layers

Base layers

Info

Record list

Tools

Type and Period (1)

PARISH CHURCH (12th Century to 19th Century - 1100 AD to 1899 AD)

Description

Grade I. Parish church. Early C12 W. tower and nave; chancel added C13, with C15 windows; mid C19 S. porch and restorations. Roughcast and render over flint, stone dressings, tiled roofs. Fine dominating W. tower, wider than the nave, with C18-early C19 twin saddle-back roof. Each side of bell chamber has pair of Romanesque openings with semi-circular roll-moulded arches of 2 orders on shafts with cushion capitals. Small single lights with unmoulded semi-circular heads below; very small similar lights to ground floor of N. and S. sides; C13 3-light W. window of chalk, with plate tracery. Narrow nave has small original window with semi-circular head to N., and 2 later 2-light traceried windows to S. Blocked N. doorway with narrow chamfered pointed arch; S. door with similar arch in C19 gabled wooden porch. Chancel has 2 chamfered lancets to N., 3-light traceried E. window and 2 restored 2-light traceried windows with flat heads to S. Central S. door. C19 buttresses. Interior: tower has moulded arch on shafts to inner face of W. window, and tall wide unmoulded semi-circular arch to nave. Nave has semi- circular rere-arches to doorways and S. windows, and medieval roof of 4 bays with chamfered arch-braces to collars and heavy simple wind-braces. C19 wooden arch and screen to chancel. Reworked C15 octagonal font with traceried panels. Other fittings C19. RCHM I p. 156-7 (B6).
Large early C12 W tower & nave, C13 chancel & C15 windows. Mid-C19 S porch & restoration. Tower has pair of Romanesque arches on each side of bell chamber (B1-5).
State of church in 1637 (B7).
Tower restoration shows 2-phase construction (details)(B8).
Illustration included in a collection of sketches of Buckinghamshire churches by Charlotte Pigott in the early 1840s (B11).

Sources (11)

<1>SBC26953 Bibliographic reference: George Lipscomb. 1847. The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham (Volume 3). Volume 3. pp566-567.
<2>SBC5420 Article in serial: W A Forsyth. 1902. 'CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, FINGEST', IN RECS OF BUCKS 8 PP457-462. Vol 8, part 5.
<3>SBC20462 Bibliographic reference: William Page (ed). 1925. A History of Buckinghamshire (Victoria County History) Volume III. Volume 3. pp44-45.
<4>SBC20466 Bibliographic reference: Royal Commision on Historical Monuments. 1912. Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire. Volume 1. pp156-157.
<5>SBC11706 Bibliographic reference: Nikolaus Pevsner. 1960. The Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire. p136; Plate 2.
<6>SBC3985 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1986. LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST: BUCKS; WYCOMBE: PARISHES OF FAWLEY &C. p18.
<7>SBC5683 Article in serial: Robert Gibbs. 1889. 'STATE OF THE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE PARISH CHURCHES IN THE 16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES: PART 2, IN RECS OF BUCKS 6 PP245-258. Vol 6, part 3. p249.
<8>SBC4882 Bibliographic reference: FARLEY M E (BCM) NOV 1984 FIELD VISIT/CAS CARD 4638.
<9>SBC10411 Map: OS 1960 6-INCH MAP.
<10>SBC447 Bibliographic reference: ANON UNDATED (AFTER 1982) THE PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT BARTHOLOMEW, FINGE-ST (CHURCH GUIDE: COPY, FILE.
<11>SBC23373 Article in serial: Elliott Viney. 1991. Bucks Churches in the Eighteen-Forties. Plate 4a, p72.

Location

Grid reference	SU 77670 91150 (point)
Civil Parish	FINGEST AND LANE END, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire