---
title: "St Mary, Aylesbury"
description: "Located in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. Built Mainly C13 on a Saxon site; C14–C15 additions; restored 1849–69. Diocese of Oxford. Grade I. Early English cruciform; Decorated and Perpendicular additions style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Church of England","Buckinghamshire","Aylesbury","Grade I","Early English","George Gilbert Scott"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/st-mary-aylesbury"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T01:13:46.663Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-07T20:34:12.391Z"
location: "Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire"
country: "England"
county: "Buckinghamshire"
town: "Aylesbury"
address: "St Marys Square, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP20 2JJ"
postcode: "HP20 2JJ"
built: "Mainly C13 on a Saxon site; C14–C15 additions; restored 1849–69"
architect: "George Gilbert Scott (restoration)"
denomination: "Church of England"
dedications: ["Mary"]
diocese: "Oxford"
grade: "I"
style: "Early English cruciform; Decorated and Perpendicular additions"
materials: "Squared rubble, partly re-faced with ashlar; stone dressings; lead roofs"
website: "http://aylesburystmary.org.uk/"
openingHours: "Monday to Friday 9.15am to 2.30pm. Saturday 11am to 1.30pm. Sunday 8am to 10am."
parish: "Aylesbury"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1160522"
gridReference: "SP 817 139"
accessNotes: "Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby"
---

# St Mary, Aylesbury

St Mary’s is a Grade I parish church on St Mary’s Square, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, in the Diocese of Oxford. The square around it has the character of a small cathedral close.

## Overview

Historic England describes a mainly thirteenth-century cruciform church, built partly on the site of a Saxon church and extensively restored between 1804 and 1809, with a Saxon crypt under the Lady Chapel and a Norman font. The Royal Commission recorded a probable twelfth-century church entirely rebuilt in the first half of the thirteenth century: chancel, central tower, transepts each with an east chapel, nave and aisles. The Lady Chapel was added south of the south transeptal chapel in the fourteenth century; a two-storey north vestry, a rebuilt south porch and a clerestory followed in the fifteenth.

By the mid nineteenth century the foundations had failed. Geoff Brandwood’s account in *Records of Buckinghamshire* describes a twenty-year restoration under George Gilbert Scott, begun late in 1849 and marked by a sermon of Bishop Samuel Wilberforce on 28 September 1869, at a cost of some £15,000. The listing notes a good sixteenth-century monument to Lady Lee in the north transept.

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1160522](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1160522)
- [RCHME Buckinghamshire: Aylesbury](https://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/bucks/vol1/pp22-40)
- [St Mary’s, Aylesbury](http://aylesburystmary.org.uk/)