A small church community with a big heart. A warm welcome awaits you at our little village church in Moulsoe. This ancient church stands proud at the centre of the village – and has done so for the last eight hundred years or more. While formally dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the church is generally known as St Mary’s.
Services are currently held here once a month at 9.30am on the third Sunday of the month, and are always followed by tea, coffee, and biscuits – or more - and a chance to catch up with village life.
Moulsoe is essentially still a farming community, so our pattern of worship is structured very much around the agricultural year, with Plough Sunday, Rogation and Harvest key elements of this that are celebrated here with real meaning. The church is also a very special place on Mothering Sunday, or at Easter and Christmas.
Services for the next few months:
| Sunday 17 November | 9.30am | Family Communion |
| Sunday 22 December | 5pm | Carol Service |
| Sunday 19 January 2025 | 9.30am | Family Communion |
| Sunday 16 February | 9.30am | Family Communion |
There is a farm track alongside St Mary’s and the verge can be parked on but please be careful not to block the driveways or the actual track.
St Mary’s, Newport Road, Moulsoe, MK16 0HQ
History of St Mary's Moulsoe
St Mary’s is a Grade 1 listed building probably developed from a 12th-century church consisting of a chancel and a nave. In the 13th-century north and south aisles were added. The church was altered again in the 14th-century when the nave arcades were raised, the aisles rebuilt, and the tower and south porch added. From 1861–90 the chancel and porch were rebuilt, and the church restored.
The chancel, by William Burgess was reconstructed in 1861 but the chancel arch was constructed from a mixture of pieces from earlier times. The arch itself originates from the 13th-century and was adapted about 100 years later. It rests on a victorian oak screen which incorporates the moulded principal mullions and two traceried panels of a 15th-century screen. The posts at either end of the screen are also from the 15th-century and the one on the north side contains part of a squint (a hole cut in the post to enable members of the congregation to see the altar).
The north and south arcades of the nave both consist of four bays with pointed arches and octagonal columns. There are four clearstory windows on the north side and three on the south side, all with plain square openings and wooden lintels, with a few courses of brickwork over the heads outside; they appear to have been inserted in the 17th century. 
A number of the windows date from the 14th-century. Most of these have two lights but the one on the east wall of the north aisle has three as does the east facing light in the bell chamber of the tower. they are all glazed with plain glass. According to A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 4. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1927, there are a few fragments of 14th-century glass in the west window of the tower.
The church has three Victorian stained-glass windows, the east window, the window in the south wall of the chancel and the one at the east end of the south aisle. Burgess designed the large plate tracery of the east window which was glazed with stained glass in the rose window style section and with plain glass underneath. Apparently, this is because at the time there was a vast oak reredos which completely obscured the three main lights, and even the bottom halves of the two lower lights of the tracery. Presumably, in the interests of economy, it was felt unnecessary to have stained glass in the parts of the window which would never be seen.
The window on the south wall of the chancel depicts the Christ in Glory and St Lucy patron saint of the blind and the east facing window in the south aisle depicts a series of significant events in the life of the Virgin Mary. The east end of the south aisle is enclosed by a late Victorian screen to form a lady chapel. All three windows were glazed by Burlison and Grylls in1895.
The tower is of 14th-century construction, built in two stages with diagonal buttresses, a south-west stair turret, a battlemented parapet with a string course and stone gargoyles at the corners.