Ghost of a church
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Ghost of a church
Image: © Rob Farrow Taken: 17 Jun 2006
Picked out in mown grass, the outline can be seen of where the erstwhile church of St.James the Apostle once stood in its churchyard in Akeley. A church had existed in Akeley since at least 1164, but this was replaced by a new building in 1854 - there is a plan of this later church here - http://www.churchplansonline.org/show_full_image.asp?resource_id=04774.tif This new church was obviously not as well constructed as the old one however as it required demolishing in 1979 due to the parlous state of its stonework. The church had rectors dating back to 1234 see http://met.open.ac.uk/genuki/big/eng/BKM/Akeley/rectors.html Here is a link to a photograph of the 1854 church taken c. 1960 http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/photo_database/photodb_detail.asp?Counter=72
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Image Location
Latitude
52.033197
Longitude
-0.969355