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Scene Description: Source caption: "Ghost of a church. 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. [...] 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".

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2006 by Rob Farrow [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/187816] [accessed 7 January 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 17280AKE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St James the Apostle [disappeared]
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Church Location: Akeley, Buckinghamshire, MK18 5BN
Country Name: England
Location: Buckinghamshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the A413, 4 km NNE of Buckingham
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Oxford]
Historical Region: Hundred of Stotfold [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Buckingham
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
There is an entry for Akeley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP7037/akeley/] [accessed 7 January 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Sheahan (1862) reports that "the old church was a small mean building"; a new church "was rebuilt entirely on the old site [...] in 1854" with an octagonal font "of Painswick stone". The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) notes: "The church was granted with the manor by Walter Giffard to Longueville Priory" [NB: William I's cousin, ca. 1040], and adds that the old church appears in the taxation documents of 1279, and that it "was returned as worth £6 13s. 4d. yearly in 1535"; it reports that the 19th-century church was restored in 1901, but does not mention a font in any of the buildings. The restored church fell into disrepair in the later 20th century and was finally demolished in 1979. The old church therefore must have existed in 1086, even though it is not mentioned in the survey.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.033197, -0.969355
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 1′ 59.51″ N, 0° 58′ 9.68″ W
UTM: 30U 639295 5766677

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-03-21 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Sheahan, James Joseph, History and topography of Buckinghamshire, comprising a general survey of the county, preceded by an epitome of the early history of Great Britain, London; Pontefract: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts; William Edward Bonas [...], 1862