STANTON-BURY, a parish in the hundred of NEWPORT,
county of BUCKINGHAM, 3 miles (W. by S.) from
Newport-Pagnell, containing 40 inhabitants. The living
is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Buckingham,
and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's
books at £7. 6. 8., endowed with £200 royal bounty
and £400 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage
of Earl Spencer. The church, dedicated to St.
Peter, exhibits many Norman remains, particularly a
fine and richly decorated arch between the nave and
the chancel.