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Little Hampden Church

Little Hampden Church

Great Hampden

Buckinghamshire

C14 wall paintings of the weighing of the soul

C14 wall paintings

C14 wall paintings of demon

C14 wall paintings of tamed beast

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C12, altered C15, with C15 N. porch

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N. side has fine 2-storey C15 gabled porch, timber-framed with curved cross braces and rendered infill

Wall, and tall elegant figure of St Christopher to left of N. Nave has good remains of early C13-C15 wall paintings: earliest series shows figures of saints in trefoil niches with scroll friezes above and below along E.

Wall, figures of St Peter and St Paul on N. door; painted head and hands of another figure above later chancel arch; other C14 and C15 figures include another St Christopher, St Michael weighing the Virgin and the Devil, a figure tortured by devils, and a dragon

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C15-C16 nave roof with cambered tie beams and tall crown posts

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Small carved stone relief figure in S. wall of chancel

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Late C19 and C20 glass