Church of St Andrew, Biggleswade

[2] A woman with a broken arm touched his body and it is reported that she was healed and the wax tapers in the procession stayed alight.

Most of the church is from the Perpendicular Period with the chancel believed to have been rebuilt or refurbished between 1467 and 1481 by Archdeacon John Rudying (d.

[3] The medieval tower collapsed in the early 1700s and was rebuilt in 1720 and fitted with a ring of five bells cast by Thomas Russell of Wootton in 1721.

[1] A stone reredos designed by the London architect R J Withers was added in 1877 with decoration by the famous mosaicist company of Antonio Salviati in 1881.

This is described as lying in a large Purbeck Marble slab in the middle of the chancel being 11½ ft by 5½ ft with the effigy and canopy with Saints John the Baptist, Anna, Elizabeth, and Mary of Egypt being destroyed but other figures of Death and angels and a Latin inscription surviving.

The nave and aisles are separated by Perpendicular four-bay arcades with moulded arches and piers with four shafts.