Church of St Mary The Virgin, Eaton Bray With Edlesborough
The church was built soon after 1205 by William I de Cantilupe using stone from nearby Totternhoe. The organ there was refurbished after a local fundraising campaign in the 1980s.
The fine arcades of the nave and the font date from the Early English period. There is a 16th century communion table.
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