[4] In the 15th century the nave clerestory with its timber roof and the two-storey porch were built and the tower windows were altered.

[7] It was later returned but King Cnut had St Wigstan's remains removed again in the 10th century, having them reburied at Evesham Abbey in Worcestershire.

[8][9] These references are further understood to have been repeated at Soulton Hall in Shropshire, the house of the publisher of the Geneva Bible.

[8][10] In the 1980s, a mass grave thought to be associated with the Great Danish Army was found in a mound, constructed over the remains of a Saxon chapel, to the west of St Wystan's Church by archaeologists Martin Biddle and Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle and their team.

Many of them showed signs of violent injury, and a variety of Viking artefacts, such as a Thor pendant, were found among the bones.

They attributed the initial discrepancies to the marine reservoir effect from the high consumption of seafood by the Vikings.

[16] Also buried there are the ashes of C. B. Fry, whose tombstone, dedicated in 2008, describes him as "Cricketer, Scholar, Athlete, Author – The Ultimate All-rounder".

[citation needed] The church contains a two-manual 23-stop tracker action pipe organ by Peter Collins dating from 1998.