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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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Press photograph - Service to bless St. Mary's Bells, 1964

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The Right Rev. C. L. Bishop, Bishop of Malmesbury (centre), pictured before the dedication of the bells service. L to R: Godfrey Parsons (Lay Reader), Sidney Bowler (Church Warden), Harry Faulkenbridge (Church Warden), and Rev. Brian Carne. 1964.