Church of St Dunstan, Monks Risborough

The Church of St Dunstan is the parish church of Monks Risborough. The church dates mostly from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries though was built on the site of an earlier church [1]. The church was restored in the 1860s.

The church, built mainly from flint, has a nave with North and South aisles, a chancel, a transept to the North (which may be the oldest part of the church) and a square tower. The church has a twelfth century Norman font of the Aylesbury type and may be from the original church.

As for Saint Dunstan he was a tenth century monk and abbott who rose to become Archbishop of Canerbury. He was canonised in 1029AD.

[1] "Parishes: Monks Risborough." A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 2. Ed. William Page. London: Victoria County History, 1908. 256-260. British History Online. Web. 7 February 2019. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/bucks/vol2/pp256-260.