A Helmet from Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire

Extract

Rather more than forty years ago the late Francis Henry Cripps-Day compiled a county-by-county survey of the weapons and armour still to be found in English churches, either as parish armour, kept there originally against a moment of national emergency, or as a memorial to some person of quality. It appeared as an appendix to the Record of European Armour and Arms which had been left unfinished by Sir Guy Laking at the time of his death, and which Mr. Cripps-Day completed and saw through the press. The information in this appendix was gathered in from various sources, and the editor gave due credit to the individual observers who had had the perception to notice odd helmets or swords in this church or that, and had taken the trouble to communicate with him upon the subject.