Little Hampden Church

Little Hampden Church is a parish church that dates back to the 12th century, with alterations made in the 15th century, including a 15th-century north porch. The church underwent significant restoration in the 18th and 19th centuries. It features a render over flint construction with brick and stone dressings and has tiled roofs. The layout includes a nave, a chancel, and a north porch, with a small vestry added to the west end of the nave in 1932.

The west end of the nave has a brick band course and a two-light window with Y tracery. There are two similar 18th-century windows on the south side, one of which is in a blocked doorway. The north side boasts a fine two-storey 15th-century gabled porch that is timber-framed, with curved cross braces and rendered infill. The upper storey has single louvred openings, and the door features a two-centred chamfered wooden arch.

The chancel has late 19th-century stone dressings, including a chamfered plinth, quoins, a coped gable, and a shaped kneeler. It also has 19th-century cusped lancets on the north and south sides, a 19th-century two-light traceried window to the east, and a narrow transomed lancet that was rebuilt in the 20th century on the north side.

Inside, the nave contains impressive remains of early 13th to 15th-century wall paintings. The earliest series depicts figures of saints in trefoil niches with scroll friezes above and below along the east wall, including figures of St Peter and St Paul on the north wall, and a tall figure of St Christopher to the left of the north door. There are painted heads and hands of another figure above the later chancel arch, along with other 14th and 15th-century figures, including another St Christopher, St Michael weighing the Virgin and the Devil, a figure tortured by devils, and a dragon.

The nave roof, dating from the 15th to 16th centuries, features cambered tie beams and tall crown posts. There is an unmoulded two-centred chancel arch, a piscina with a band of carved foliage below the label, and a small carved stone relief figure in the south wall of the chancel. The church has a large stone altar slab with consecration crosses and 19th-century altar rails, along with late 19th and 20th-century glass. A memorial tablet commemorates Martha Hill from 1731. The dedication of the church is unknown.