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The villagers of North Crawley have been worshipping on this site, probably for some one thousand years. An entry in the Domesday Book of 1086 refers to a “monasterio of Craulai”. This suggests that there was a Saxon monastery, possibly founded during the reign of Edward the Confessor (1042 to 1066) and that the church formed part of the ...
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purported monastery of monks and nuns founded 686 on land granted by Ecgfrith, King of Northumbria; destroyed in raids by the Danes c. 875; rebuilt before 1092 by William Rufus and Walter, a Norman priest;
Anciently North Crawley was the location of a monastery dedicated to Saint Firmin. The monastery was recorded in the Domesday Book, though had fallen into such decay by the Dissolution of the Monasteries that little notice was taken of it, and it fell into ruin shortly afterwards.
A monastery was founded here before the time of Edward the Confessor. The soil is clay, and bricks and tiles are made here. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; gross yearly value, £230 with residence.
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Though Crawley is not mentioned byname among the numerous Buckinghamshire manors held by Walter Giffard in1086, three of the more important manors in thisparish, Hollowes, Broughtons and Filliols, together withthe Crawley Grangeestate, were afterwards attached asone fee, one halffee, and one halffee respectively tothe honour of Giffard or Glouceste...
The church of ST. FIRMINconsists of a chancel measuring internallyabout 36 ft. by 17 ft. 6 in., nave 60 ft.6 in. by 20 ft. 6 in., north aisle 10 ft. 4 in. wide,south aisle of the same width, west tower 12 ft.square, and a modern north porch. The present building seems to have been developedfrom a 12th-century church consisting of a chanceland nave,...
The church is referred to in 1086as a minster (monasterium), and theremay have been a small community ofpriests attached to it. (fn. 240) Half of it was bestowed byRobert de Broughton and William his son on TickfordPriory, and the grant was confirmed by Robert,Bishop of Lincoln, in 1151–4, (fn. 241) and by Hugh, Bishopof Lincoln, as to a quarter of...
The Parochial Charities have by ascheme of the Charity Commissionersof 1 March 1907 been consolidated.They comprise the charities of: (1) Hester Bryan for apprenticing, will 1688, trustfund, £312 16s. 9d. consols, arising from the sale ofland in Marston Moretaine (Bedfordshire). Theannual dividends, amounting to £7 16s. 4d., areapplied in providing...
Brass, and wall monument on north wall of chancel to Elizabeth Giffard 1687, Other C17 and C18 monuments. Tower: four stages, Decorated bell chamber with large decorated windows. Battlemented parapet.
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North Crawley dates back to before the Domesday Book compiled in 1086, in which reference is made to only three churches existing in Buckinghamshire prior to the Norman Conquest; St Rumbold’s in Buckingham, St Osyth’s in Aylesbury, and St. Firmin’s in North Crawley.
