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Sites to Visit - Long Crendon Courthouse
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Long Crendon CourthouseLocation - High Street, In the village of Long Crendon, near Aylesbury HP18 9AN - Map (multimap) Access / Contact Details - In Ownership of National Trust. Enquiries - Telephone 01280 822850 (enquiries Mon–Fri) Making an educational visit to a National Trust property – link to NT website Possible Teaching Activities - A visit to the medieval courthouse at Long Crendon (National Trust) could be used as a stimulus for pupils to write / develop a performance based on the What is Forest Law? Study Unit or it could act as a venue for pupils to perform plays or ballads written previously. Resources
Further Information / ResourcesLong Crendon Village - The village of Long
Crendon has many late medieval buildings and a visit to the
courthouse could be combined with a general visit to the village
to look for evidence of the medieval period and explore the
different landscape elements of Bernwood Forest. The High Street
is lined with many late medieval / early post-mediaeval
buildings built of brick, stone and timber with thatch and tile
roofs. There are a large number of medieval cruck-built houses.
A possible motte (castle mound) is situated south east of the
church surrounded by a ditch except on the north-west side. The
Parish Church St Mary’s has C12th origins, but mainly dates from
the C13th.
History of Long Crendon (external
website)
Images of Long Crendon (external
website)
Notley Abbey - The parish also includes the site of Notley Abbey, the Augustinian Abbey founded around 1162 by Walter Giffard, 2nd Earl of Buckingham, and his wife Ermengard. The abbey church and the majority of the
original abbey buildings survive only as buried remains,
although portions of the cloister range were retained within the
house and outbuildings of a post-Dissolution farm - now Notley
Abbey House. The house was adapted from the abbot's lodging and
guesthouse.
The south wing, formerly the refectory,
kitchens, warming house and redorter was demolished and rebuilt
as a barn in the late 18th century. Fragments of the original
architecture remain, most notably a section of 13th century
arcading against the east wall. The barn is Listed Grade I.
The remains of the eastern arm of the cloisters,
which contained the chapter house and dormitory, lie beneath a
modern range of outbuildings and were partly revealed by
excavations in the 1930s.
A large square dovecote which was probably built using stone
from the original abbey buildings stands in the field to the
north of Notley House surrounded by earthworks which may be
remains of the abbey outbuildings.
The Site is privately owned and can only be
viewed from a public footpath. An information panel has been
installed which provides details of the abbey and its history.
For more information on the history of Long Crendon try the Buckinghamshire Sites and Monuments Record or the Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies |
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