 This lasted until the Dissolution of the Monasteries when the Knightley family demolished most of the village to enclose land for sheep farming.The church was protected from demolition by the fact that it had had land granted to it to establish a chantry in Bedfordshire.In 1690, the chancel was rebuilt and later, the church had effigies of the Knightley family installed after a number of them were buried in the church.