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1. St Peter de Merton, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England

Parish church
The church consists of chancel and nave separated by a tower, N and S aisles and N transept. There are substantial remains of the original Anglo-Saxon church which consisted of chancel, nave and a square W porch (which formed the lower stage of the tower). The chancel of the original church no longer exists, and the W part of the nave became the chancel of the present structure. The tower has long-and-short quoins visible on its lower W face, and rubble quoins on the upper stages. The NW and SW angles of the chancel also have long-and-short quoins. Both structures have blocked round-headed, double-splayed windows. The windows on the tower, two to each face, lie in the stage below heavily restored, but originally 12thc., bell openings. On the E face of the tower is a triangular-headed opening, containing a reused fragment of Anglo-Saxon carved stone in its N jamb. The nave and aisles, originally medieval were completely replaced in 19thc. 12thc. sculpture is found on the reset S doorway, brought to this site from the church of St Peter de Dunstable (VCH, 25) which was pulled down in 1545 (Lyson, 53). St Peter de Dunstable was sited near St Mary, Bedford.
2. All Saints, Caddington, Bedfordshire, England

Parish church
The church has chancel (with modern vestry on N), nave, N and S aisles and W tower. The 13thc. chancel (extended in the 14thc.), has a late 12thc. chancel arch with keeled respond shafts and stiff-leaf capitals. The nave was originally aisleless, and the quoins surviving in its outer W wall may date from the 11thc. The N and S aisles are 15thc., as is the W tower. The church was extensively restored in 1875 by Ewan Christian. The late 12thc. S doorway, reset when the aisles were built, has also been restored.
3. St Peter and St Paul, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England

Parish church
The church has chancel with N vestry, nave with clerestorey and N and S aisles, and W tower. It is substantially 13thc., apart from the chancel and vestry which are 14thc. There is some modern work in the chancel. Some 12thc. masonry survives in the nave and 12thc. sculpture is found on the reset N doorway and on a carved panel set into the exterior S wall.
4. St Mary and St Helena, Elstow, Bedfordshire, England

Benedictine Abbey, now parish church
Originally a cruciform, aisled Abbey church, now a parish church. Most of the E end of the nave and clerestorey and the first three bays of N and S arcades survive from the 11th-12thc. structure. The two W bays of the nave arcades are 13thc. and there is a 13thc. chamber, now a vestry, at the W end of the S side of the nave. The church was extensively restored in 1880 by Thomas Jobson Jackson, who rebuilt the 16thc. E wall, the clerestorey, S and N aisle walls and the N doorway. 12thc. sculpture is found on a reset tympanum and on some reset fragments from the original N doorway. The church has a 15thc. detached tower to the NW but very little survives of the conventual buildings.
5. St Peter and St Paul, Flitwick, Bedfordshire, England

Parish church
Most features of the church date from 1858 or from the 1867 restoration by Butterfield, but it has a 14thc. S aisle (c.1320) and W tower (c.1380), and a S porch of 1500. Late 12thc. sculpture is found on the incomplete, re-set N doorway and on the font.
6. St Mary, Everton, Bedfordshire, England

Parish church
The church has chancel, nave with N and S aisles, W tower and S porch. There is long-and-short work on the eastern quoins of the chancel, and the chancel may have formed an early single-cell church. The church as it exists now is substantially 12thc. although the tower, nave clerestorey and S porch are 15thc. There are two small plain 12thc. windows with arcuated lintels in the N wall of the chancel and two in the S. Two reset 12thc. windows are found at the W end of the N aisle and in the W wall of the S aisle. There are traces of a blocked doorway on the S side of the chancel. 12thc. sculpture is found in the N and S nave arcades and on the S doorway.
7. St Mary, Kensworth, Bedfordshire, England

Parish church
The church has a late 11thc. or early 12thc. aisleless nave and chancel, both with plain round-headed windows on the N. The chancel was extended in the 15thc. and the W tower was probably also constructed at that time. Late 11thc. to early 12thc. sculpture is found on S and W doorways, the chancel arch and W tower arch.
8. St Denis, Little Barford, Bedfordshire, England

Parish church
The original 12thc. church consisted of an aisleless nave and chancel. A N arcade was added in the early 14thc. and there is a 15thc. W tower. The church was restored in 1834, and in 1869, when the chancel was rebuilt. The nave and N aisle were repaired in 1871. There are reset, plain, round-headed windows on E and W walls of the N aisle, 12thc. according to VCH, although the E window is pointed on the exterior. 12thc. sculpture survives on the S doorway.
9. St Thomas' Chapel, Meppershall, Bedfordshire, England

Deconsecrated chapel
The chapel, which is now used as a storage shed, consists of an aisleless nave and chancel. The chancel was replaced in c.1500. It is the same width as the 12thc. nave. 12thc. sculpture is found on the blocked S doorway. The chapel is constructed of Totternhoe stone, ironstone and brick.
10. Segenhoe, Bedfordshire, England

Parish church
The church, which is now a ruin, has a chancel, a nave with N aisle, and a W tower. The much repaired chancel is substantially 12thc. although the E wall was rebuilt in brick in the 18thc. The nave has a 14thc. N aisle of three bays ( apart from the E bay which is 13thc.) and did have a S aisle of the same date although this has been blocked, only part of the W respond is now visible. The W tower, which may have originally been 13thc. was repaired in the 18thc. with brick, and the numerous other brick repairs are probably of this date. Early 12thc. sculpture in found on the chancel arch, on one of two reset chancel windows and on a reset doorway.
11. St Peter, Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England

Parish church
The earliest surviving part of the church is the lower part of the crossing tower which is early 12thc. and which has two plain round-headed splayed windows, one on the N and one on the S wall. A S aisle was added in the late 13thc. and the N aisle was rebuilt at this time. A clerestorey was also built at this time. The chancel is 14thc. The nave and aisles were again rebuilt in the 15thc. as was the upper part of the tower. The church underwent major restoration in the 1950s and 60s, and the clerestorey was dismantled at this time. The church was rededicated in 1971. Early 12thc. sculpture is found on the S doorway to the tower.