Hartwell Church, Buckinghamshire
Photo taken by rbirkby on 5 August 2005

The ruined Hartwell church was designed by the architect Henry Keene and completed in 1756. It is one of the most important early Gothic revival churches in England.

The Church has an octagonal centre with twin towers. In the north and south bays are rose windows, other windows are represented as ogee arches. In the clerestory are quatrefoil windows. Inside the church once had a plaster fan vault this has now fallen in, and the church's windows are boarded.

Today the building appears more as a garden folly, than a former place of worship, to the close by Hartwell House.

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