Editing Langley, Berkshire (section)

===Notable buildings===
[[File:Seymour Almshouses, Langley Marish Geograph-2309314-by-Stefan-Czapski.jpg|thumb|Seymour Almshouses]]
The [[St Mary the Virgin Church, Langley|Church of St Mary the Virgin]] is in the [[Church of England]] [[diocese of Oxford]]. The church is a Grade I [[listed building]]<ref>{{cite web |title=The Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Langley Marish. (Grade I Listing) |url=http://www.sloughmuseum.co.uk/st_maries_langley.htm |publisher=Slough Museum |access-date=26 April 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704191421/http://www.sloughmuseum.co.uk/st_maries_langley.htm |archive-date=4 July 2008 }}</ref> and houses the [[Kedermister Library]], given by Sir John Kedermister (or Kederminster), who also endowed the surviving almshouses of 1617 in the village. Other surviving almshouses include the Seymour Almshouses (1679–1688), given by Sir Edward Seymour who was a [[Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)|Speaker of the House of Commons]], and those founded in 1839 by William Wild in Horsemoor Green.

The courtier [[Henry Norris (courtier)|Henry Norris]] owned a house, "Parlaunt" or "Leving", at Langley Marish. The property was forfeited to the crown when he was executed in May 1536. When Henry married [[Anne of Cleves]] in 1540, furnishings from Parlaunt were taken to [[Oatlands Palace]]. There are no remains of this manor house.<ref>[[Thomas P. Campbell]], ''Henry VIII and the Art of Majesty: Tapestries at the Tudor Court'' (Yale, 2007), p. 260.</ref>

Sir John Kedermister's house, [[Langley Park, Buckinghamshire|Langley Park]] (bought by [[Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough]]) was demolished and rebuilt to designs by [[Stiff Leadbetter]], starting in 1756 and completed in the year of his death, 1758.<ref>A domed temple in the park, {{circa|1740}}, attributed to [[Roger Morris (1695–1749)|Roger Morris]], no longer exists; {{cite book |last=Colvin |first=H.M. |author-link=Howard Colvin |title=A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840 |year=1997 |orig-year=1954 |edition=3rd |publisher=[[Yale University Press]] |location=New Haven |isbn=0-300-07207-4 }}: ''s.v.'' "Leadbetter, Stiff", "Morris, Roger".</ref>

The [[Langley Academy]] secondary school opened in 2008 and was designed by architects [[Foster + Partners]].