With a little difficulty the clerk persuaded the beast to go out, and again, when we had forgotten the incident, and just as the vicar was ascending the pulpit steps, we heard our noisy friend in the church porch, but it did not get in this time, as the clerk stopped its further progress, and after a good sermon this morning service closed.The churchyard was extended in 1896 with land given by Charles Shakespear of Langley Priory.

[6] The Lychgate in the churchyard was erected in 1897 and paid for by the Misses Shakespear of Langley Priory, and four new windows were restored to commemorate the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria.

[8] Early records show that the tower had a ring of four bells, the 1st cast by John Briant, Hertford, & B.

For many years this was served by an older wood-framed clock mechanism of three compartments with anchor escapement and a double right-angled locking piece.

Private John Frederick Allcroft of 1st Battalion Leicestershire Regiment who died on 31 May 1915 aged 21, and Private Arthur Chapman of 5th Northern General Hospital division of the Royal Army Medical Corps who died on 23 November 1919 aged 46.