The church being occupied by the parliamentary forces when they stormed
the castle, was almost entirely demolished by the cannon of that
fortress.
The part now remaining, is situated a short distance north of the scite
of the castle, and consists of a tower, and a part appropriated for
public worship, which was once the southern aisle of the original
edifice. It is built of sand stone, and if the delicate tracery of its
windows be excepted, it contains but little architectural beauty. These
windows were once ornamented with richly stained glass of which not a
fragment is now remaining. {73}
There is yet preserved in this church the mutilated remains of an
embroidered cloth for the communion table, said to have been wrought by
one of the Duchesses of Lancaster.
Two chantries, which formerly were attached to this church, were
suppressed at the dissolution of religious houses, in the twenty-sixth
year of the reign of Henry the eighth.
The rectory is in the presentation of Lady Eyre of Mortlake, in Surrey.