St. Mary the Virgin, Carlton, Bedfordshire
Description
The church of St. Mary the Virgin, situated about a quarter of a mile from the village, is a stone building, in the Early English, Decorated and Perpendicular styles, with some traces of Norman work, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower, containing 4 bells: the font is Transitional, with rude interlaced carving and cable moulding round the basin, and is supported on tall circular columns: the Perpendicular chancel screen, though mutilated, remains, and there is a piscina; north of the chancel was once a chapel: there is a small inscribed brass to Joane Goddard, 1610, and inscribed stones to Thomas Wells, rector, 1642, aged about 100, Rev. Benjamin Rogers, 50 years rector, 1771, and Rev. Henry John Ellman, rector, 1829-62: there are 140 sittings.
Church Records
The parish register dates from the year 1554.