The church notably contains the shrine and relics of St Etheldreda, an Anglo-Saxon queen and abbess who died on 23 June AD 679 and went on to become one of the most popular of the medieval saints in England.St Etheldreda, (David Nash Ford's Early British Kingdoms) She has even been described as one of "the most significant of all native English Saints."Virginia Blanton, Signs of Devotion: The Cult of St. Aethelthryth in Medieval England 695-1615, Pennsylvania State Univ Press, 2007, , p.3
