St Mary the Virgin, Monken Hadley

The church was rebuilt in its present Perpendicular style form in 1494 (the date being carved in stone between a wing and a rose over the west door[a]) possibly after incurring damage during the battle of Barnet in 1471.

There is a well-preserved monument by Nicholas Stone to Sir Roger Wilbraham (died 1616), Solicitor-General for Ireland, his wife Mary Baber and their three daughters.

[1] At that time the north transept window still had surviving remains of painted glass, "among which may be noticed the rebus of the Gooders, a family of considerable consequence at Hadley in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

[2] The south porch was rebuilt in 1855 and later Victorian additions were an organ (in the former chapel of St Anne to the north of the chancel), a new pulpit and new stained glass in all the windows.

[4] The east window and other stained glass was destroyed in the Blitz and the side chapel of St Catherine was restored in 1958, still being in use for that purpose.

Interior of St Mary's Church