St Peter And St Paul (church Of England)

Nave arcades rebuilt, clearstorey added, tower completed and chancel arch renewed in C15

Chancel and N aisle partly rebuilt in C16, NE vestry 1825 and larger choir vestry with organ 1874

Interior thoroughly restored 1861-2 with new oak seating and pulpit designed by William Slater and made by James Forsyth of London, and chancel roof rebuilt to original height

Oak rood-screen, panelling and roof gilding and painting in chancel, and chapel formed in E end of S aisle 1899-1900 by G.F. Bodley

Remaining from C13 are a lancet window by altar on N wall of chancel, moulded rear-arch of S doorway which itself is a C19 copy of a C13 original (doorway re-used in C14 aisle), and 3-lobed bell capital from arcade set in a niche in N aisle

3-bays chancel with encaustic tile floor

Low pitched roof with carved bosses at junctions of ridge and purlins with principals and all painted and gilded in medieval multicolours

5-light E window (1851) with traceried pointed top and stained glass by Clayton and Bell

N wall has C13 lancet with deep internal splays and small rectangular locker recess below

A 2 bays arcade in C15 style gives onto choir vestry with organ and N window re-used from chancel N wall, matching the 3 early C16 S windows of chancel each of 3 cinquefoil lights

Stained glass by Kempe in 2 Western windows

Several C17 monuments to Anderson family of Pendley set in floor

Carved wooden reredos, riddel posts, and standing angels, painted and gilded, by W.E. Howard 1928

Beside it wall monument to William Kay d.1838 by J. Browne of London with seated female mourner and urn in Greek aedicule, pilastered with trusses

C14 pointed canopy fragment in N aisle niche probably from sedilia in chancel and fragments of early C14 figure tiles kept in church, and others dispersed in mid C19 restoration and now in British Museum and V and A Museum, probably from a tiled frieze around chancel

Lofty and wide 6-bays nave with C15 open timber roof

The capitals, arches, and imposts are C15 but the piers are careful Portland stone copies c.1882 of the original church piers and bases then built into All Saints Church, Long Marston (q.v.). Blunt-pointed clear- storey windows of 3 cinquefoil lights renewed at same time with roof supported on scaffolding

14 large carved stone C15 fabulous beasts in spandrels of arcades support shafts running up to support moulded corbels to 14 carved wooden figures at the springing of the moulded curved braces to the cranked tie beams of the roof with moulded ridge, purlins and wallplates supporting flat rafters, and moulded sub-principals

Wide C14 chancel arch of 2 deeply moulded orders, engaged shafts and moulded caps and bases with narrow 3-centred arched headed doorway above N springing about lm above the level of the balustraded rood loft surmounting the traceried wooden screen

Crucifixion with kneeling angels on diapered ground on wall above

Sharply pointed C14 tall tower arch of 4 orders, with engaged shafts to 2nd and 3rd orders, flanked by high church-wardens' pews of 1862 and tall narrow paintings of Moses and Aaron presented by William Gore of Tring Park c.1715 when he 'restored and beautified' the church

The North aisle has a large C15 E window of 5 lights with tracery unglazed now opening to choir vestry, 3-centred arched headed narrow doorway to rood stair in SE corner, W window with C14 rear arch and renewed tracery of 2 trefoil lights with quatrefoil over

Large standing monument on axis of S door to Sir William Gore d.1707 and Elizabeth his wife d.1705, possibly by Grinling Gibbons (half-opened pea-pod carved in foliage top right) but probably by Nost