[7] Elizabeth Williamson, in the 2003 revised edition, Buckinghamshire, of the Pevsner Buildings of England series, considered the Victorian porch an "excrescence".

Of the latter, he describes the removal of the plasterwork in the nave, together with the replacement of the Norman chancel arch and the opening up of the hammerbeam roof, as giving the church the appearance of "a barn".

[14][15] The gardens were landscaped by Edward White[16] and contain a number of private plots for the interment of ashes, within a larger, Grade I listed park.

[21] The Gray Monument (adjacent to St Giles' church and owned by the National Trust)[22] is listed at Grade II*.

The cloisters used to have glass depicting coats of arms relating to persons known to Sir Edward Coke, a former owner of the adjoining Manor House.

[28] The arms represent: Roger Manners; John Fortescue; Sir Walter Mildmay[29] and of families of Ducie, Pipe, Sheffield and Pyott.

[26][30] The restoration resulted in a new East central window of the Crucifixion by Martin Travers and Lawrence Lee[31] replacing an image of the founder of the chapel, Lord Hastings of Loughborough.

[26] The south aisle of the nave have vibrant windows by Mayer & Co. which remembers the death of a small child of the Howard Vyse family.

[34][35] Huge panels of early 16th century glass were fitted in a private vestibule in mid-Victorian times, by Edward Coleman, the owner of Stoke Park, Buckinghamshire.

A Norman lancet window in the chancel was restored in 1947 and it remembers the men and women of Britain and Allies who died in World War II.

[36][51] Another lancet window in the chancel, remembers Captain Frederick Henry Allhusen of the 9th Royal Lancers who served in South Africa during 1899.

Killed in 1914 was Lieutenant Samuel Vernon Einem Hickson who was serving in the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, died in Tanga.

[36][55][56][57] Inside the Hastings chapel are items remembering the 4th Prince of Wales's Own (PWO) Gurkha Rifles which includes an Officers' Book of Remembrance and a battle honours Regimental flag.

[59][60] One of the Standards of the Royal Horse Guard (The Blues) has been lodged in the nave beside memorials to the Howard Vyse family of Stoke Place[61][62] due in part because Major General Sir Richard Howard –Vyse of Stoke Place had been the Colonel of the Royal Horse Guards (The Blues).

[63] On the north side of the altar is the oldest brass, which is to Sir William de Moleyns who died in 1425 at the Siege of Orléans, and his wife, Margaret.

Twelve years later, following the removal of the spire, a new ringing chamber was created above what had been a gallery: directly above the 'Manor House – Penn pews' within the tower.

[70][72][73] Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade,Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,Each in his narrow cell for ever laid,The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

In June of that year, Gray wrote to his friend and supporter, Horace Walpole; "I have been here at Stoke a few days and having put an end to a thing, whose beginning you have seen long ago, I immediately send it to you.

"[81] A. L. Lytton Sells writes that there is "no doubt" about the identification of St. Giles as the churchyard of Gray's Elegy,[82] and Robert L. Mack calls it "very close to irrefutable".