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The church dates from around 1300 but it is the intervention of the Spencer family of nearby Althorp that transformed the medieval building. Sir John Spencer (d1522) rebuilt the chancel and commenced the funerary chapel that lies adjacent to it. Further intervention of both church and chapel was carried out by Edward Bloor in 1840s.

The church is an ambitious and self-confident Gothic style building by G B Cox, erected between the wars and finished in 1934.

The church is set slightly above the meadows of the River Ebble.

The roots of Wade Street Church go back over 400 years with the current building opened in 1812. It is still standing today and the outside is more or less unchanged.

This tiny medieval church in a good hillside setting is entered through a farmyard.

13th century church where, in 1609, Henry Adams married Edith Squire, the ancestor of Presidents John Adams, John Quincy Adams and Calvin Coolidge, as well as of Samuel Adams, who also signed the US Declaration of Independence.