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In his obituary in ''[[The Times]]'', Buxton is described as “a prolific photographer and a linguist”, a passionate traveller and, “by inclination, a scholar”<ref name=":0" /> and this is borne out by the number of publications in his name.
Travelling with his parents and sister, Buxton first went to [[Russia]] in 1927 visiting [[Moscow]] and other cities and undertaking walking tours of the countryside.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|date=2007-11-22|title=Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War|url=https://blog.oup.com/2007/11/iron_curtain/|access-date=2022-01-12|website=OUPblog|language=en}}</ref> He returned to the [[Soviet Union]] on his own in 1928 to undertake a study on medieval architecture, visiting Central and North West Russia, the [[Volga region|Volga Region]] and parts of
Later in life he made annual research trips to study wooden churches in [[Poland]], [[Czechoslovakia]], [[Hungary]], [[Romania]], [[Yugoslavia]], [[Finland]] and [[Ukraine]] and his book, ''The Wooden Churches of Eastern Europe'' was published in 1981. Buxton also wrote on Ethiopia and, during his time in the country, studied its Christian culture bringing attention to its rock-hewn churches through articles in archaeological journals. He is also credited with helping to save the ancient church at [[Debre Damo]], the earliest existing church in Ethiopia. In retirement in [[Cambridgeshire]] he continued his research on ancient Ethiopia with the assistance of a Fellowship from [[Clare Hall, Cambridge|Clare Hall]] and wrote the book ''The Abyssinians'' for [[Thames & Hudson|Thames and Hudson]]’s series, Ancient Places and People.<ref name=":0" />
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