Notable People Associated With The Church
- Inigo Jones, architect: baptised 1573.
- John Lyly, author and playwright: buried November, 1606.
- Thomas Bodley, founder of Bodleian Library: buried 1613.
- Thomas Monro: Vicar and Hospitaller of St Bartholomew the Less, 1754–65.
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