Kingston is an historic market town where seven Saxon Kings were crowned. Nothing remains of the original Saxon church, and very little of the Norman one. The current building is largely 15th, 16th and 19th century, with Victorian stained glass windows. The earliest record of the bells goes back to 1500. The oldest bell in the present ring is dated 1748, the newest from 1972 when the augmentation from an awkward anti-clockwise ring of ten to an easy ring of 12 took place.