This church and the surrounding area has some very interesting history. The following snippets came from a website we're not allowed to link but if you google the church name and location the second search result has plenty more info to read.
Even if there was no church, Wingfield would still be famous. It has a castle which isn't really a castle, and a college which is no longer a college. It was the combined power of these two, coupled with one of the most powerful families in late medieval England, which has given St Andrew the shape we find it in today. And even if it was just the church, this would still be a beautiful place to come, an elegant building of the 14th and 15th centuries set in a small, sloping, rambling graveyard at a curve in the climbing road beside the village pub.
The finest monument here is across the chancel, on the other side of the sanctuary and backing the wall to the chapel. This is John de la Pole, first Duke. He lies in alabaster beside his wife Elizabeth Plantagenet, sister of Edward IV and Richard III (whos remains were dug up in a car park in Leicester in 2012)
So often in a quiet, rural backwater like Wingfield we expect, and usually find, a humble church of the common people, a touchstone to the blacksmith and the wheelwright, the ploughboy and the farrier. Well, they are all here - in the graveyard, they are all around. But St Andrew is not a humble church. It is one of the great English testaments, a story of power and glory, of treachery and downfall. The Dukes of Suffolk are no more, but still St Andrew rides the hidden lanes of the county like a great ship, a ship of light. All around, the 21st century seems rather mundane and shabby by comparison.
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