Monument record 0055601000 - QUARRENDON, S OF CHURCH RUIN

Summary

Originally thought to be site of sixteenth century great house, but now believed to be part of formal garden after field survey

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Ancient Monument 1013416: DESERTED VILLAGES AND CIVIL WAR EARTHWORK

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Type and Period (1)

(Former Type) GREAT HOUSE (16th Century - 1500 AD to 1599 AD)

Description

No remains of the buildings where Sir Henry Lee entertained Queen Elizabeth I in 1592. Lee built a large mansion here, pulled down partly c.1666 & partly in 1713. Some timber work in Church Farm may belong to it (B1-2,B5-6).
Mansion (1560) entrenched behind a big earthen wall (01:001)(B3-4).
At NGR (B11).
Reinterpretation of earthworks following RCHME topographical survey, Sir Henry Lee's mansion no longer thought to have occupied this particular site, now purely formal water garden related (B18).

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---SBC17284 Aerial Photograph: 12/12/75. BCM A1/5/12. SP\798156. Yes.
---SBC17395 Aerial Photograph: 05/02/90. BCM A14/8/22A. SP\801157. Yes.
---SBC17794 Aerial Photograph: 25/07/48. CUC BV 89. SP\802157. Yes.
---SBC17814 Aerial Photograph: 09/04/49. CUC CA 80-83. SP\801158. Yes.
---SBC17846 Aerial Photograph: 06/09/80. CUC CNH 40. SP\801159. Yes.
---SBC18423 Aerial Photograph: 06/02/85. NMR SP7915/10/154. SP\799157. Yes.
<1>SBC26952 Bibliographic reference: George Lipscomb. 1847. The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham (Volume 2). Volume 2. pp401-406.
<2>SBC19727 Bibliographic reference: James Joseph Sheahan. 1862. History and Topography of Buckinghamshire. pp738-739.
<3>SBC20350 Bibliographic reference: A Hadrian Allcroft. 1908. Earthwork of England. pp479, 553, 610.
<4>SBC20466 Bibliographic reference: Royal Commision on Historical Monuments. 1912. Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire. Volume 1. p273.
<5>SBC20463 Bibliographic reference: William Page (ed). 1927. A History of Buckinghamshire (Victoria County History) Volume IV. Volume 4. pp100-101.
<6>SBC2827 Bibliographic reference: CHAMBERS E K 1936 SIR HENRY LEE PP216,237-238.
<11>SBC10942 Bibliographic reference: OS RECORD CARD SP81 NW7.
<12>SBC13168 Graphic material: 1989-1990. RCHM(E),1989-1990 (COPY OF SURVEY IN CAS FILE 0407).
<18>SBC19329 Article in serial: Paul Everson. 2001. Peasants, Peers and Graziers: The Landscape of Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire, interpreted.

Location

Grid reference	Centred SP 8005 1574 (300m by 340m)
Civil Parish	QUARRENDON, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire