20th Century

The parish church was closed for a number of years until restoration works were complete. The full repair and redecoration was completed in 1949. When the windows were reglazed, fragments of the original coloured glass were incorporated in the new windows. Shrapnel damage to the east side of the church is still visible. Many interesting memorial tablets, some from the previous churches, are placed around the church.

About that time, a section of the back of the church was used to create the Browning Chapel to commemorate the marriage in the church of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett in 1846. (Their marriage certificate is preserved in the church archives). An altar with communion rail was positioned under the memorial window.