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The church contains varied and interesting stained glass using techniques from the late fourteenth to the early twentieth century. In the windows on the north side of the nave are five roundels of white glass with yellow stain, all probably from the old church (two - the king and queen - are known to have been there). Four appear to date from the very end of the fourteenth century; they may have been made at the Oxford glass workshop of Thomas Glazier. In the larger window at the top is a man sheep-shearing - perhaps one of a set of roundels showing the ‘Labours of the Months’. Beneath this are heads of a king and a queen. These are not in fact roundels but heads of royal saints, encircled with their halos. The heads bear some resemblance to Richard II and Anne of Bohemia, whom the Golafre family served at court. In the small window over the pulpit is a figure of Our Lady at the Annunciation; the dove flies down on a ray of light, and there is a scroll entwined about a pot of lilies. The Angel is missing, and should have been on a companion roundel. Beneath is a later roundel, possibly about 1480, showing the eagle of St. John, presumably one of a set of the signs of the four evangelists. Below the king and queen, in the main lights of the larger window, is glass by R.Anning Bell, put in by Hope ffennell in memory of her parents. The main figures are Our Lady and St. George. The small St. Cecilia in the right hand bottom corner resembles her daughter Hazel, (died 1939); but is unlikely to be a portrait. (Picture 1)
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