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We regularly add St.John family portraits to The Lydiard Archives. This painting of Henry St.John 1st Vsct Bolingbroke is in The National Portrait Gallery.

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Photograph of Revd. Brian Carne & St. John Polyptych, c1965

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Large photograph of Revd. Brian Carne, Rector of the Lydiards (1960-68), pointing at the dedication inscription on the sarcophagus on the central panel of the St.John family polyptych, c 1965

This photograph was taken prior to the repair and conservation of the Polyptych which took place in the 1980's.