However, the church is built on top of a Roman villa, the remains of which can be viewed under small trap doors located in the pews towards the back of the nave.

There is an Anglo-Saxon stone cross located above the altar on the east wall of the church.

Kedington comes in the top rank of small English churches and is renowned for its unmodernised interior and Barnardiston tombs.

John Betjeman understandably christened Kedington ' a village Westminster Abbey'.

The Anglican minister, Samuel Fairclough (1594-1677) was born nearby in Haverhill and was appointed rector in 1629.