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Excerpt from Records of Buckinghamshire, or Papers and Notes on the History, Antiquities, and Architecture of the County, Vol. 8: Together With the Proceedings of the Architectural and Archaeological Society for the County of Buckingham One of the greatest defects of our County history, without reecting on its author, for the reasons which may be gathered from the previous observations, is that Lipscomb supplies so meagre and often so inaccurate an account of the architecture of the parish churches. The church is for the most part the only building in the parish the history of which is the primary guide to the history of the district in which it stands. We want to trace its earliest features. We may or may not have been told who was its founder, whether it was built by a Lord of the Manor for his retainers, or Whether it was originally reared by the monks for the parish in which they held the great tithes, or the church of a priory, the cell of some religious house. We need to know in detail the points in its history, the font, the arches, the windows, the screens, each is significant of the past. And What a. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.