Author

The Rev Pownoll W Phipps

Publisher

Charles Luff, Slough, 1886

Printing Details

First edition, first printing. Hardback, bound in the original green cloth with gilt titling to spine and upper board. 29 x 22cm, 76pp

About the Book

A scarce history of Upton-cum-Chalvey an ancient parish in the Stoke Hundred of Buckinghamshire that now forms the centre of Slough. This book is illustrated with 14 albumen prints of the churches and their architectural features (four larger prints on single pages and ten smaller prints, two to a page), and one page of woodcut engraving. Contents: 1. Introduction, The Parish, 2. Church of St Laurence, Upton, 3. Parish Church of S. Mary. 4. The Church Bells, 5. Church of S. Peter, Chalvey, 6. Chapel of S. Andrew, Eton Union Workhouse, 7. The Rectory, Vicarage and Glebe Lands, 8. List of Vicars, 9. Note on the Period of the Commonwealth, 10. Note on the De Beauchamp Family, the Abbey of Elstow, and the Parish of Buckden, 11. Record of Registers and Parish Chest, 12. Summary of Buildings and Cost of Churches, Schools and Vicarage; 13, Churchwardens' Accounts, and 14. List of Parochial Charities.

Condition

This copy is in very good condition for age. There is rubbing to the joints and spine ends but the cloth binding is otherwise clean. The pages have light scattered foxing throughout but the books remains in strong readable condition.

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