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A church has existed here since the C12th and the present building dates from 1494, the date given unusually in Arabic numerals over the west door, which was renovated in 1956. The copper beacon on the tower was set up in the C18th, possibly to celebrate the return to health of George III; this was lit for Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation in 1953. The churchyard contains a number of wooden 'bedhead' memorials and historic C19th tombs such as those of Emily Trollope, sister of Anthony Trollope, and W M Thackeray's grandparents.

St Mary's is the mother church to which St John's at Chipping Barnet was once a chapel at ease. The church had belonged to St Albans Abbey and until the C13th it served the whole of Barnet. The lych-gate, originally erected in 1872, was rebuilt in 1991. The churchyard has many fine tombs, a number of wooden graveboards on the north side, and among the trees are mature yews some c300 years old. In 2000 a yew cutting was planted in the south west corner taken from the Eastling Yew in Kent, a tree alive at the time of Christ's incarnation. The churchyard was closed to burials in the late C19th and is now maintained as part of the Living Churchyards Project, a national initiative that aims to conserve and enhance the wildlife heritage found in churchyards.

There may have been a Saxon church here as early as the C9th, and a carved C11th Norman font is still in use. The current building retains some C13th, C15th and C16th elements but the church was extended substantially in 1914/15. The large churchyard has a number of fine monuments and trees including yew and cedar. In his history of Hendon in 1890 E Evans notes the earliest surviving grave as that of Thomas Marsh, 1624; he describes the churchyard's pretty location and trees shading the graves, a scene little changed today.

A Norman church existed on the site from C12th but in 1872 Saxon foundations were discovered dating from an earlier church. The tower and main body are C15th with two later aisles. Bombed in WWII, the church was later restored. The churchyard is enclosed with C20th fence and iron railings, and has some good C17th and C18th tombs. An obelisk to Major John Cartwright (d.1824) was raised by public subscription and erected in 1835. The churchyard is densely shaded, and trees include ancient yew, cedar, holly, larch and hornbeam.

St Michaels and All Angels was built when the Mill Hill Broadway area was being developed around the new station. The east part was completed by 1922 and extended in 1932 and 1938 with the west end and Lady Chapel by Alban Caroe not completed until 1956. The church hall to the north, Hartley Hall, was built in 1910. It has pleasant gardens in front of the church, also an area of lawn to the side.

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This was the first publicly owned cemetery in London, and was established after the 1852 Metropolitan Interment Act when the St Pancras Burial Board bought over 35 hectares of Horse Shoe Farm on Finchley Common. The railings, gates and northern pair of gatehouses remain of the original buildings, as does the Anglican chapel erected in 1853 by the parishes of St Pancras and St Mary Islington. A further c.38 hectares were added in 1877 for Islington, and in 1896 an Anglican Chapel was built for St Mary Islington. The Crematorium was built in 1937. The large rambling site is bisected by many avenues, and has many fine trees including lime, cedar, monkey puzzle and cypress. There are many fine monuments, including the Mond Mausoleum.

St Paul's Church was consecrated in 1833, paid for by William Wilberforce, an important figure in the Anti-Slavery Movement. Wilberforce had moved to Highwood Hill in 1825 and gained permission to build the church on a gravel pit site on Belmont Estate. St Paul's became a parish church in 1926. The churchyard has yew in front, iron railings and flower beds to the road. Behind the church is a large churchyard with numerous trees including yews and other species.

St Peter's Church was built in 1840 at the expense of Enoch Durant of High Canons, Shenley as a private chapel. Durant died in 1848 and a wall tablet in the church commemorates him. After Durant's death the advowson was later transferred to the rector of Barnet. The chapel was consecrated, and an ecclesiastical parish was formed in 1905. The church grounds consist of a garden with shrubs, seats and lawn. Near the church is the War Memorial.

The house was formerly Littleberries, built on the site of an earlier house that was altered and improved from 1712 following its acquisition by George Littlebury in 1691. The estate underwent numerous changes over the years and had fine grounds, including descending grass terraces leading to a temple. An estate survey of 1754 shows a series of ponds, walled garden, and square 'pleasure ground' with three variously shaped ponds and a mount. In the C19th J W Pawson made further improvements, probably planting monkey puzzle trees, a number of which survive. In 1885 it was acquired by the Order of St Vincent and although the ponds are filled in the landscaping between house and temple is not much changed.

New Barnet was developed gradually from the 1850s, after the arrival of the railway but it was not until the end of the century that it was fully built. The War Memorial is on an island surrounded by busy roads and has a bronze winged figure on a tall obelisk surrounded by a small landscaped area of evergreen trees, raised flower beds.

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Avenue House, built in 1859, was acquired by Dr Henry Stephens in 1874, son of the inventor of Stephens ink. He enlarged and improved the property and grounds, the latter laid out by Robert Marnock with lawns, ponds, mounds and rockwork, a network of informal paths and steps, a paddock and walled kitchen garden. Planting included a fine collection of trees. In 1918 Stephens bequeathed the house and 10 acres of grounds to 'the people of Finchley' on condition that it should be 'open for the use and enjoyment always of the public under reasonable regulations'. Put to various uses after Stephens's death in 1918, the property eventually opened to the public in 1928. The present gardens are reduced in size, but the planting and most of the path layout has remained unaltered since the 1870s/1880s.

Stonegrove Park opened in May 1934 and is a small irregularly shaped public park between the main road and residential streets. Development in the area took place during the 1920s although by the early C19th some houses had been built along Stone Grove, including Stone Grove House. The park has a circular boating pond, now drained and weed-filled, in the middle of a grassy area with various deciduous trees. On the southern side are tennis courts, small formal beds and two playgrounds. There is a perimeter path with several benches, having cast-iron supports and arm-rests in the shape of lion heads dated c.1934. Adjoining the park is the rear elevation of Days Almshouses with a grass terrace and evergreen planting.