Monument record 0154300200 - OLD ST NICHOLAS' CHURCH, TAPLOW

Summary

Chapel added to St Nicholas' church in the seventeenth century and demolished in the nineteenth

Protected Status/Designation

  • Ancient Monument 1014781: SAXON BARROW, CHURCH AND CEMETERIES IN THE OLD CHURCHYARD AT TAPLOW COURT

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Type and Period (1)

  • CHAPEL (17th Century to 19th Century - 1600 AD to 1899 AD)

Description

Dimensions - Length 0007 m Width 0006
Plan Form - RECTANGULAR
SIDE CHAPEL BUILT ON N SIDE OF NAVE BY HAMPSON FAMILY IN C.1633, WITH FAMILY VAULT BENEATH (B1-4,B10). DESCRIBED 1637: MR HANSOMES ISLE PARTED WITH A HIGH PARTITION FROM CHURCH (B11). IN 1828 MOST OF CHURCH PULLED DOWN, BUT CHAPEL BOARDED UP TO PROTECT GOTHIC OAK SCREEN, PRIOR TO PLANNED CONVERSION (B10).
Resistivity survey by Mark Ward found what he suggested was the chapel of the Hampson family (B12). Resistivity survey by Marlow Archaeological Society did not find this evidence (B13, B14).

Sources (9)

  • <1>SBC15508 Bibliographic reference: VCH BUCKS 3 P241.
  • <2>SBC14058 Bibliographic reference: SCRIMGEOUR G E & FARLEY M E (BCM) NOV 1987 TAPLOW & ITS SETTING PP8-13 (DRAFT MANUSCRIPT FILED IN C.
  • <3>SBC5867 Bibliographic reference: GRENFELL W H LORD DESBOROUGH 1923 ST NICHOLAS' CHURCH, TAPLOW IN TAPLOWPARISHMAGAZINE"".
  • <4>SBC7746 Bibliographic reference: LIPSCOMB 3 PP298-304.
  • <10>SBC13843 Bibliographic reference: RUTLAND J (MS) ST NICHOLAS CHURCH, TAPLOW IN BRO (REF: D/X/748/9)(PHOTO-COPY IN CAS FILE).
  • <11>SBC5690 Bibliographic reference: GIBBS R 1889 STATE OF BUCKS PARISH CHURCHES IN C16 & C17, RECSOFBUCKS6PP246-247"".
  • <12>SBC19197 Unpublished document: Mark Ward. 1997. The Archaeology of Taplow Court, South Buckinghamshire In Association With A Geophysical Survey.
  • <13>SBC22949 Unpublished document: Elias Kupferman. 2006. Geophysical survey at the Old Churchyard of St Nicolas Church, Taplow.
  • <14>SBC22946 Unpublished document: Oxford Archaeology. 2007. Taplow Court, Buckinghamshire: Draft Publication Report. pp 187-8.

Location

Grid reference SU 90630 82180 (point)
Civil Parish TAPLOW, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire

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  • Event - Survey: Geophysical survey of St Nicholas's Graveyard and Bapsey's Meadow, Taplow (EBC16344)

Record last edited

Sep 20 2007 12:25PM

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