Now there is history for you. The location where this church stands is where baptisms have been carried out for almost a millennium. Holy Moly!. The current building actually dates back to around the 14th century. Guess who all worshipped at this church? I quote from the Church’s website.
Important visitors include John Knox, who preached his last sermon here before fleeing abroad from the wrath of Queen Mary, Oliver Cromwell, who parked his wife for safe keeping at Woodrow High House, just outside the town, Richard Baxter, the Puritan Divine who described a 'disputation' with Parliamentary soldiers during the Civil War, and William Penn, walked over from Penn Village to court his second wife Guilemina Springett, then resident at a farmhouse in the town, before going off with her to found Pennsylvania!
Anyway, I came down the hill and the forest
Here’s a lovely little tree with lovely white flowers…
I move on this little bridge, very interesting brickwork, see how it curves around? 
This is a river, believe you me. River Misbourne, this is the river which actually carved out this valley. Now its a miniscule stream. 
There’s the church. 
The river (if one can call it so) banks are built up of brick and have these little niches with flower pots. very interesting idea. On the right, you can see the iron staples which hold the brickwork in. 
A plaque on the wall
Keep on walking up…couple of more staples on the wall
The riverbank
Here is the church. Hard to imagine this is hundreds of years old, eh? 
These trees are amazing, club ended…
Some very very ancient graves, the gravestones are sloughing off stone. 
See? ancient ancient graves, you cant even figure out what’s carved on the stones. At least the 18th century
On the other side, the river disappears below a house…..
They look like strange sentinels, no? 
Stained glass windows, the second window is beautiful, very rare, never saw a window with this shape before…
Another window with a tidy little door at the bottom. 
This grave has had it
A lovely little balcony
Some beautiful windows….
The walls of the church are covered with flint stones (I always wanted to say that…)
The rain spouts were made in 1939 with some of the ugly gargoyles around it
They have worn away…
Came out on the road
Here is a group of 8 graves, nicely fenced off with some very nice iron fencing. 
A lovely stained glass window with a massive door. The door had some very interesting carvings on top of it. 
See? fascinating. 
The gargoyles and the mason faces are heavily worn away
Moved around to the other side of the church
Whoa, what are these? 
Looking up at the clock tower. 
More gargoyles
The church was closed and this is the nave door. 
So popped in
The roof has these gilded ribs with lovely rosettes
See the window? Lovely stone carvings…
On the two sides of the roof, you can see this dog and a really idiotic looking pig. I wonder what is the significance?
Two trees which have been topiaries to an inch of their lives, lol
More masonry heads and gargoyles. 
I seem to find a bloody pigeon on top of the cross on top of the roof on every church. Poxy flying rats…
An avenue with these strange trees
An iron gravestone. You usually don't find them…people prefer stone. That’s curious, why wouldn't they have metal? or even plastic? that’s much longer lasting than stone, no? I searched for this and found that some people are indeed considering plastic gravestones as a great way to recycle plastic. I like this idea. 
Head to head
More of these trees
That’s the town hall
Some lovely architectural pieces, the doors specially are beautiful. 
Lovely looking church, no? 
Hmmm, this tree is a memorial to Sir Winston Churchill’s funeral..how extraordinary
A last look back at the church
Daffodils…with some droplets of water.
I finish the church and then move into the remembrance garden.
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