Monument record 0184701000 - CHESHAM WOBURN

Suggestion that were 2 separate churches in Chesham - 1 the present Church, & the other Chesham Woburn, situated at the back of the infant school [Germain Street], where the foundations have been discovered. In 1467 Edward IV granted to Edward Braymill a garden & 1 rood of land for the maintenance of lights in the Churches of Chesham Leicester & Woburn (B1).
Doubtful whether there were separate churches at Chesham. It is not inconceivable that the former existence of a parsonage-house at the infant school may have given rise to the supposition that there was once a church there too (B2).
The church of Chesham seems from early times to have been attached in separate moieties to the manors of Chesham Bury & Chesham Higham. One moiety was bestowed on Woburn Abbey (B3).
Considerable efforts made to trace the suggested site of the church of Chesham Woburn without result (B4).
Council School at Germain Street, the suggested site of the church &/or vicarage is centred at NGR. The CVAHS has traced oral accounts of the foundations found at the school, from which it appears they were much too flimsy to be those of a church & even, probably a largeish house. They were of flint, & could even be of a building associated with some of the considerable RB finds made in the area (B5).