Sites of Historic Interest

The Sir Thomas Crewe's Almshouses were founded in 1633 by Sir Thomas Crewe, a former speaker in the House of Commons, who later became Lord Crewe of Steane. He was a Puritan who supported Parliament in the Civil War. The Almshouses provided accommodation for the poor, a provision that had been lost with the closure of the Hospital of St James and St John.

Golden Spring - near St Peter's Church there are two wells called Golden Spring Well and St Rumbold's Well. Water ran from the springs down a green lane which was consequently known as Watery Lane (hence the name for the residential development of the 70s off Buckingham Road). St Rumbold is alleged to have been born in Kings Sutton in the 10 th century, to have been a child prodigy from the familes of Mercia and Northumbria, and to have spoken at length on Christianity on his birth. He foretold his own death and his wish for his body to lie for two years in Brackley before being buried in Buckingham. His resting place is the site of the well.

St Peter's Church - traces of Norman work remain in the arch above the South Door now accessed through the extension which was built in the 1990s and in some of the eastern arches. The south aisle is Perpendicular and the north aisle dates from the 14 th century. The parish of St Peter was amalgamated with the parish of St James (sited off the Oxford Road at the south of the town with its closed churchyard still in evidence) in 1884.