Mrs. Beatrice McClellan White (1898 – 1969), of Longbridge Deverill, writing in 1960 on the subject of Crockerton, noted:
In 1942, during the war, a bomb fell in the lane opposite the church [Holy Trinity, Crockerton], breaking all the windows and damaging the roof, also taking off the roofs of several houses in the lane. Luckily no one was hurt. The windows of the church including those over the altar, which had formerly been of stained glass, were all replaced with plain glass.