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Bridleway, AYLESBURY, HP22 5SU

A delivery for this smart pub/restaurant along Church Lane.

26 School Lane dates back to the 17th century and is a timber framed building with painted plaster and brick infill. It was originally two cottages.

26 School Lane dates back to the 17th century and is a timber framed building with painted plaster and brick infill. It was originally two cottages.

St.Mary's in Weston Turville has a charming little half timbered porch containing a venerable wooden door. The porch is on the church's northern side. The church contains a fine example of a C12th "Aylesbury" font (see shared description below).

This little panel of stained glass set into the East Window of St Mary's, Weston Turville is not quite what it seems. At first sight it looks as though it is a rare survivor of mediæval glass that escaped the ravages of the C17th Puritans. In fact, according to the church's own guide, it dates only from the C19th, being a Victorian work in the older style - it had me fooled.

St Mary's, Weston Turville contains a particularly fine example of an "Aylesbury" font (see shared description below) - considered one of the top four specimens of this style of font. It dates from the late C12th and has the typical fluting on the bowl. These fonts also typically have the band connecting the bowl to the base, more usually in the form of a rope, but alternatively, as seen here, sometimes decorated with chevrons. For some detailed views of the carving see Bowl Image] & Image] Base Image] & Image]

Looking remarkably like "Mr Bean" this little Jester's head is one of four carved capitals at the base of the spandrels along the nave - this and two others are on the northern side, with one more on the southern arcade. This one is easily both the jolliest and most unusual.

This little brass monumental figure is to be found attached to the northern nave wall of St Mary's, Weston Turville. It is of a civilian in furred robe, and is estimated to date from c.1580

There are two fragments of C13th wall painting in the spandrels of arcade along the southern wall of the nave of St Mary's, Weston Turville. They are thought to date from c.1250 This from the records of Buckinghamshire (E.C.Rouse, 1962) "... the most interesting discoveries were of fragments of wall painting made during the summer of 1962 ... they are exceptionally bold in design and rich in colouring ... and are very similar to the work in Bledlow in like position" The fragment shown in this photograph is the more colourful of the two examples.

The fine C15 nave roof with tiebeams on arched braces to be found above the nave of St.Mary's church in Weston Turville.