Yeates, S. (2012). Archaeological Watching Brief at Saint Mary's Church, Church Street, Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire. John Moore Heritage Services. https://doi.org/10.5284/1034813. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Archaeological Watching Brief at Saint Mary's Church, Church Street, Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire
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Abstract:		 A watching brief was carried out at Saint Mary's, Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire (NGR SP 8060 0349), during the removal of the Victorian floor and its replacement with a new oolitic limestone floor with drainage ducts inserted below. This work retrieved finds of earlier periods and also identified a number of earlier structural features, which enables the reinterpretation of the phasing of the development of the church. Previous interpretations of the church (VCH 1908; RCHME 1912/3; Pevsner and Williamson 1994) had suggested a simple nave and chancel structure that pre-dated the 13th century. This implied that the nave had been lengthened in the 14th century. This sequence of events can now be corrected. Limited archaeological evidence survives for an early but as yet poorly dated phase of the church. The walls of this structure were probably robbed. The west wall of the nave was detected in the drainage channels dug below the impact layer under the present tower. Investigation of the service cuts to the west of the church confirmed that there was a further wall beyond the present tower which indicated that rather than a square tower the building had a rectangular porch more in line with late Anglo-Saxon churches of the 9th to 11th centuries (for example Cirencester, Gloucestershire). In the 13th century the aisles were added on the north and south side, and the arcades inserted. These were longer, like the nave, than previously thought, as indicated by the line of a blocked door at the west end of the south aisle. In the 14th century the west end of the church probably collapsed leading to the insertion of new arches and the shortening of the nave. Further phases of the church can be detected internally from the later 16th to the early 19th century through posts for gallery steps and pulpits where protestant views reconfigured how the church should be used. The Victorian reworking of the church was also apparent from 1867-8, as were later repairs.
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Author:		 Stephen Yeates
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Publisher:		 John Moore Heritage Services
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2012
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Site: St Mary's Church, Church Street, Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire
County: Buckinghamshire
District: Buckinghamshire
Parish: PRINCES RISBOROUGH
Country: England
Grid Reference: 480600, 203490 (Easting, Northing)
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MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) TILE (Object England)
EARLY MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) CHURCH WALL (Monus)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) CHURCH WALL (Monus)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) INHUMATION (Monument Type England)
BRICK (Object England)
CHURCH (Monument Type England)
WORKED OBJECT (Object England)
ROOF TILE (Object England)
SHERD (Object England)
FLOOR TILE (Object England)
WATCHING BRIEF (Event)
CLAY PIPE (SMOKING) (Object England)
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OASIS Id: johnmoor1-117687
OBIB: 2291
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Created Date:		 01 Feb 2018