Record Search

St Leonard's church, formerly thirteenth century chapel of Chesham Bois manor

Fourteenth century record of chantry chapel attached to St Margaret's Hospital

Thirteenth to sixteenth century records of leper hospital - Leper hospital extant in 1229. By 1392 it was described as a free chapel, and was probably dissolved in 1467. Variously described as the Hospital of St Margaret and St Giles or of St Margare...

Fourteenth century church of St Leonard's at Chesham Bois, restored and much extended in nineteenth century.

Sixty burials found during road widening in 1883, thought to be Roman at the time but now thought to be the cemetery of the leper hosptial and to date to the medieval period

Fifteenth century church at St Leonards, with seventeenth and nineteenth century restorations

Eleven or twelve medieval burials found during roadworks in 1986

A stone war memorial cross in St Leonard's churchyard, commemorating parishioners killed in WW1 and WW2.

Burials from possible medieval leper hospital cemetery found in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Burials thought to be Roman were found in 1884 but now thought to be medieval