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John James at Chalfont St Peter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 April 2016
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During a recent search through the Portland papers at Nottingham University for a project completely unconnected with John James, an item in the catalogue caught my eye. It was a letter written by John James which provides information on a previously unknown example of his work at the parish church of Chalfont St Peter in Buckinghamshire. This church on a very modest scale was designed by James to replace the badly damaged earlier church and built from about 1712 to 1714.
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- Section 6: Cathedrals, Abbeys, Churches and Chapels
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- Copyright © Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain 2001
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1 Buckinghamshire County Record Office, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire Quarter Sessions Order Book, Michaelmas Sessions 1708.
2 Ibid., Parish Register.
3 VCH Bucks., I (1905), p. 319 and III (1925), p. 197.
4 Bennell, John, ‘Notes Towards a History of Chalfont St Peter’, unpublished and undated typescript (Aylesbury Local Studies Library)Google Scholar.
5 Bodleian Library, Oxford, Browne Willis MS 13, fol. 6.
6 Willis did not record the date.
7 Browne Willis MS 94, fol. 13.
8 Church guide by Briden, E. J., The Parish Church of Chalfont St Peter (1979), p. 12 Google Scholar.
9 Petition and reply, Lincolnshire Archives, Lincoln, Fac/9/62.
10 Rouse, E. Clive, ‘Remains of the Former Church at Chalfont St Peter’, in Records of Buckinghamshire, 12 (1927), p. 66 Google Scholar.
11 Letter from John James to John Lucas at King’s Bench Walk in the Temple (Nottingham University, Hallward Library, Pl C 39/8).
12 Bucks County Record Office, PR36/11/1, Poor Rate Book 1688-1776.
13 Thomas Gery was a master in the court of Chancery from 1700 to 1719, but no reference has so far been found to any ruling by him on a cause relating to Chalfont St Peter.
14 Lipscomb, George, The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham, 3 (1847), 246 Google Scholar.
15 Bodleian Library, MS Top. Gen. C112, fol. 55, a volume of anonymous church views in pen and ink, of which one has a note relating to an event of 1843.
16 This illustration was published by Briden in his church guide, but the present whereabouts of the original are unknown. It is reproduced with the permission of the parochial church council of Chalfont St Peter.
17 E. Clive Rouse, art. cit. (n. 10 above), p. 60.
18 Report in the Buckinghamshire Advertiser, 31 August 1978.
19 ‘Notes on Chalfont St Peter’, Records of Buckinghamshire, 17 (1964), pp. 309 & 416.
20 Article in Buckinghamshire Life, December 1966 and note on Chalfont St Peter by Rouse, E. Clive in Records of Buckinghamshire, 18 (1966), p. 97 Google Scholar.
21 Briden, op. cit. (n. 8 above), p. 34.
22 Sheahan, James Joseph, History and Topography of Buckinghamshire (1862), p. 829 Google Scholar.
23 Browne Willis MS89, fol. 115.
24 Bennell, op. cit. (n. 4 above), reproduces a photograph of the house, which does appear to show a simple brick refacing with a small central pediment on a three-bay elevation.
25 Lambeth Palace Library, ICBS file 4586, 1852-55.
26 VCH Bucks., III (1925), p. 196. An inscription states that it was given by the Hibbard family in 1887.
27 C. B. M. Smith, architect, Restoration Appeal Leaflet, Aylesbury Local Studies Library L522.85; the statement in Pevsner, & Williamson, , The Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire (1994), p. 219 Google Scholar, that Dr Colin Smitheis was the architect is incorrect; organ by R. H. Walker & Son Ltd, 1964, Aylesbury Local Studies Library, L522.85.
28 Details in Bucks Life, December 1966, p. 27.
29 ICBS file 15188. Alwyn Bruno Waters, architect. Cost £32, 122.94.