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Delightful limestone church dating from the 13th century and quite possibly replacing a wooden Saxon church which existed on the site when the Domesday Book was written in 1086.

The church overlooks the churchyard with a spectacular view of the Roman site of Letocetum which had grown around the Roman fort at the junction of Watling Street and Ryknild Street.

A small 13th century church.

There are two distinct reasons for coming here. The rare medieval wooden effigies and the association with the great nonconformist missionary William Carey (1761–1834).

The first documentary evidence for the existence of Bugbrooke is the Domesday Book of 1086, although there is no reference to there being a church then.

The church has a famous Pugin rood screen and set in front of it a marble nave altar and a Queen Anne pulpit from which the Wesley brothers have preached.

Crick is a village with the quality of an 18th century town, with a very pleasant variety of buildings, at one end stands the majestic church.

The church was built c1230 by the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem.

The present church was built in 1857 to 58 and only a single buttress and short stretch of wall are left from its medieval predecessor (some fifty or so yards to the southwest).