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New Row, BUCKINGHAM, MK18 3LL

Looking south-westward.

Architectural details are at Image There are memorials here to five generations of the Mayne family of Hoggeston Manor Image and of Creslow Image See Image During the Civil War Simon Mayne of Dinton from a branch of this family was one of the regicides of King Charles I Image

Among the memorials in Hoggeston church is this fine 1599 stone and marble altar tomb at the east end of the south aisle. It is the grave of 19 year old Elizabeth Blythe, the first wife of Joseph Mayne of Creslow Manor Image She died in childbirth and on her tomb, which has on it the Arms of Mayne and Blythe and traces of colour, this sad little verse is inscribed :- "A fayre and vertuous wife, Whome once the husband held most deere, Dead in the flower of her age, Doth lye entombed here."

It is also referred to as "the Church of the Holy Cross" (possibly an earlier name: it has an old stone cross built into a wall). The 16th century bell turret, with a 14th century stone head built into a wall, has a modern shingled broach spire supported inside on massive chestnut timbers. The arcades are 13th and 14th century. Two of the doorways are 600 years old, and the newest porch is Tudor. There is Norman masonry in the chancel wall and the font dates from 1400. Among the monuments in the church are memorials to five generations of the Mayne family of Hoggeston Manor Image and of Creslow Image – see Image Ref: Lipscomb G “History & Antiquities of Buckinghamshire” 1847. Note that the quoted age for parts of the church vary depending on the source. Here is a 1925 source http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42581#s3.