The interior of St. Mary's 1906?
List of hymnsWe are not exactly sure when the top photograph was taken, but we do have a clue from the list of hymns on the wall to the left of the pulpit (this part has been cropped from the big picture to get a better match with the modern one, but is reproduced on the right). The postcard is from the ‘Varney’ series published between 1905 and 1910 and we know that May 27th was a Sunday in 1900 and 1906. It is, I think, a fair assumption that the picture was taken in May 1906.

The modern picture was taken in the summer of 1998 and shows little change. The lighting has been modernised over the pews but beyond that things are much as they were nearly 100 years ago. However, things have changed as a new window was installed, to the extreme left of the picture, to commemorate the Millennium. For a picture, take a look below.
The East window dates back to 1394 and contains some very old stained glass, including 10 lights of coats of arms. Edward the Confessor; Edward I; Edward, Prince of Wales, Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford; Edward 11; John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey; Edward III; Isabella, mother of Edward III; Henry de Chatelon and Edward the Black Prince
The interior of St. Mary's 1998
Thanks to Sir Hubert Miller, Froyle’s last Lord of the Manor, St Mary’s is blessed with a magnificent collection of vestments and altar cloths which are occasionally brought out from secure storage and displayed in the Church. The most recent occasion was in November 2005. The Vestments link below features some pictures and describes how they came to be in St Mary’s thanks to Sir Hubert Miller. In the Autumn of 2008 we also discovered a photograph of the interior of the Church that was taken in 1864. Follow the St Mary’s 1864 link below to find out more.

St Mary's 1864
The Vestments