Notable People Associated With The Church
- Thomas Culpeper, buried here
- Thomas Gouge, ejected minister in 1662
- John Rogers, minister, Bible translator, and the first English Protestant martyr under Mary I of England
- Austin Osman Spare attended the church school, now a physiotherapy centre, behind the church in Snowhill Lane
- Peter Mullen, conservative commentator and former rector
- John Smith, governor of Virginia and associate of Pocahontas: buried 1631. Smith is commemorated by a handsome window designed by Francis Skeat and installed in 1968.
- Sir Henry Wood, conductor
- Samuel Gurney erected the first drinking fountain for the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association on the railings of the church. It was restored to the original location in 1913 and remains there.
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