In 1623 the church was completely restored and re-seated at the expense of the parishioners. The following year a brick south porch was added.

The vicar at that time (then called a chaplain) was George Dale. Dale was a man who knew what he wanted, his only problem was that, often, it was not what others wanted. his resulted in Dale, on numerous occasions, getting into trouble with the authorities.

Shortly after his arrival in Sowe, Dale soon fell into dispute with Francis Peyto as to who owned a house in the churchyard. This dispute led to Dale being chased around the village by Peyto's bailiffs.

This was the first od Dale's many troubles which would plague his curacy. Perhaps knowing this, in 1629 he had a new bell hung carrying the inscription - 'Fili Die Misere Mei 1629' (God Have Mercy Upon Me 1629).

If mercy was forthcoming it was not apparent as in August, 1642, Nehemiah Wharton, a Parliamentarian officer in Coventry, wrote: 'our horseman sallied out, as their daily custom is, and brought in with them ................ an old priest, the parson of Sowe, near us, and led him ridiculously about the city unto the chief commander'.
Why this occurred is nor recorded. One possibility is that Dale held Royalist sympathies in a Parliamentarian area. This was not the end of Dale's career, as he returned home to Sowe. Here he spent his last years until his death in 1644, never to see the end of the war which had torn England apart.