The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Dunstan (now)
Parish church
Monks Risborough is in central Buckinghamshire, in the Chiltern Hills 6 miles S of Aylesbury on the A4010 road toHigh Wycombe. It now forms the northern part of the Princes Risborough conurbation. The two Risboroughs became a single civil parish in 1934, and were physically united when theWellingtonand Place Farm estates were completed in 1965. The old centre of Monks Risborough consists of the church, a 16thc dovecote and a group of picturesque thatched, timber-framed houses.
The church consists of an aisled and clerestoried nave with 4-bay arcades, a N transept in bay 1 of the nave aisle, a chancel with a 19thc organ room to the N, and a W tower. The building dates substantially from the 13thc, 14thc and 15thc; the transept being all that remains of the 13thc work, and the nave arcades and the W tower belonging to the 14thc. Construction is of flint, and the entire building was restored byG. E. Streetin 1863-64. The only Romanesque sculpture here is the Aylesbury-type font.