St Giles
Codicote, Hertfordshire
Our listed church is over 910 years old with many Arts & Crafts decorative items, family histories and memorials, and a great welcome for everyone.
The late Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, was born and brought up just to the south of the village at St Pauls Walden Bury, home of the Bowes-Lyon family since the 18th century.
St Pauls Walden, Hertfordshire
A wall tablet in All Saints commemorates her baptism here in 1900, and a memorial in the churchyard commemorates her life.
The church itself is Perpendicular, with an extraordinary, incongruous baroque chancel, installed in 1727 as the gift of Edward Gilbert, the first Bowes-Lyon ancestor to live in the parish.
One of the treasures of the church is a 14th century window depicting the Virgin and Child, recently restored.
Codicote, Hertfordshire
Our listed church is over 910 years old with many Arts & Crafts decorative items, family histories and memorials, and a great welcome for everyone.
Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire
A temple to Apollo where George Bernard Shaw played the organ.
Little Wymondley, Hertfordshire