St Mary and St Peter's Churchyard, Wennington (also known as Wennington Parish Church)

Introduction

Although the church has been much restored in the 19th and 20th centuries, the doorway dates from the 12th-century church. Among the monuments in the churchyard is that of amateur mathematician Henry Perigal (d.1898), who discovered the proof of Pythagoras' Theorum in 1830, the diagram engraved on his monument. An inscription records his Huguenot descent and states that he 'investigated and illustrated the laws of compound circular motion'.