St Peter And St Paul (church Of England)

Coursed flint rubble with limestone dressings in C15 work, red brick parapet and buttresses to N aisle

Chancel at same floor level as nave has a 3-light C15 S window unglazed opening with SE chapel, a similar blocked window and a 4-centred arched S doorway between

Chancel floored in glazed Maws and Minton tiles with saints' symbols

C17 poppy-head bench ends late C19 choir stalls

N chancel aisle formerly the Bridgewater pew, has a moulded timber roof copied from N nave aisle, 2 2-light N windows, the W window with stained glass 1892 by Burlinson and Grylls

Large iron-bound C17 chest on stand

Walls lined with splendid sculptured monuments, the best at E end to John Williams 7th Earl d.1823 a Raphaelesque tondo by Westmacott with a labourer, his wife child and dog with tools and wheat-ears

Francis 3rd Duke of Bridgewater d.1803, the father of inland navigation, over fireplace in S wall from when chapel used as a vestry up to 1963.3-bay Nave with low pitched timber roof with mouldings on ridges, purlins, wallplates, and chamfered knee-braces to tie beams springing from carved stone corbels 3-bay N arcade early C15 with octagonal piers and hollow chamfered arches.S arcade a late C19 copy

Pulpit reconstructed in late C19 for Lady Marion Alford with pre-Raphelite coloured angel figures by Mrs

Hymn board with angel design by Mrs F.W. Hodgson carved by David Clarke 1898-9. N aisle has 2 N windows, 3-lights and 2-lights, with N doorway between with 4-centred arch head

Small trefoil headed window at W with C16 German stained glass Virgin and Child dated 1534 placed to commemorate the restoration of 1878

Fine monuments moved here from chancel: Dr

Henry Stanley d.1671 by John Bushnell a large urn on a pedestal: Jane Countess of Bridgewater d.1716 a large storeyed wall monument of grey marble with Corinthian columns, entablature with pediment surmounted by an attic with cherubs flanking an heraldic panel

Other memorials in oval panels in base: to E of N door to John 1st Earl of Bridgewater d.1649 called 'The Great Monument' being of white marble with Ionic columns and flat cornice carrying a large achievement

In the S aisle 2 S windows of 3 lights and a small W window, 2 with stained glass 1895 by C.E. Kempe

C19 octagonal panelled font originally given to Ivinghoe Church by 7th Earl of Bridgewater and given to this church 1872

Older font cover

Fine wall monument to Elizabeth Dutton nee Egerton d.1611 removed from St

Of black marble and alabaster it has a kneeling full size figure painted on a Renaissance sarcophogus between panelled piers supporting an entablature with broken pediment, the soffit carved with clouds and surmounted by a figure of Time with a scythe

Over the door a monument to John Earl of Bridgewater 1686

Monument to Ann Norton d.1796 by Robert Ashton

C15 tall tower arch with half octagonal jambs and moulded caps, and 4-centred arched W door in square head with 3-light W window

The masonry of the lower part of the tower may be C13

A small medieval church of outstanding interest for its monuments.