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1. St Nicholas, Abingdon, Berkshire, England

Parish church
The W front and N wall date from the mid 12thc., but no original sculpture survives. The present W door belongs to a restoration of 1880, and is based on drawings by H.Neil (1804, engraved by J.C.Smith and published in 1805), and J.Storer (1808, engraved by the artist). These show the doorway in a dilapidated state, but substantially as it appears today, with the exceptions noted below.
2. St Mark and St Luke, Avington, Berkshire, England

Parish church
Despite later additions, the 12thc. church survives in its entirety, consisting of an aisleless nave with a chancel of the same width but slightly lower. The main areas of interest are the richly-carved S doorway, the chancel arch, the remains of the chancel rib vault, and the font.
3. St Nicholas, Beedon, Berkshire, England

Parish church
Single nave with timber bell turret at W and wooden S porch on a stone base, lower square-ended chancel. There are opposing N and S doorways. The church appears to date from the early 13thc., but the chancel arch and font are described below
4. St Lawrence, Besselsleigh, Berkshire, England

Parish church
Aisleless nave and chancel in one, with bellcote at W end and plain, continuous 12thc. S nave doorway (not described or photographed). The only 12thc. sculpture is the pillar piscina.
5. All Saints, Bisham, Berkshire, England

Parish church
The fabric of the church was entirely replaced in restorations of 1849, 1856 and 1878, apart from the late 16thc. Hoby chapel S of the chancel and the 12thc. W tower. Late 12thc. sculpture is found on the E arch of the tower and the bell-openings (the latter restored in 1962).
6. St Leonard’s, Brimpton Manor Farm, Brimpton, Berkshire, England

deconsecrated chapel (formerly Free Chapel)
Brimpton is a village in the south of the county, five miles E of Newbury and only a mile from the Hampshire border. The village lies between the rivers Kennet and Enborne, just south of the line of the Roman road from Newbury to Calleva (Silchester). It is clustered around a minor crossroads, with the parish church (St Peter’s) in the centre and Brimpton Manor farm and St Leonard’s chapel 500 metres to the north. The chapel of St Leonard stands immediately to the E of Brimpton Manor farmhouse, and is a simple rectangular flint building with ashlar quoins and a modern red-tiled roof. The N doorway indicates an origin in the 12thc, but there are additions of the 13thc (N window) and 14thc (E window). The only Romanesque sculpture is on the N doorway.
7. St Mary, Bucklebury, Berkshire, England

Parish church
The ornate S doorway is all that remains of the 12thc. work.
8. St Andrew, Chaddleworth, Berkshire, England

Parish church
Integral 12thc. single nave and chancel with 13thc. tower. To this, G.E. Street added a brick chancel higher than the nave in 1851. Two chapels of 1706 (E chapel) and 1765 (W chapel) open off N side of nave. The tower bears the inscription MBR1637AMP, presumably referring to a restoration. 12thc. sculpture consists of a S doorway elaborately carved with chevron, a plain font, and reused pieces on the tower arch and the label of the W window.
9. St Peter, Charney Bassett, Berkshire, England

Parish church
Charney Bassett is in the NW of the traditional county, 7 miles W of Abingdon and 4 miles N of Wantage. The village contains only approximately 100 houses clustered, with the church, at a junction of minor roads some 3 miles W of the A338, a former Roman road from Wantage to Bicester. The church comprises a nave with a N aisle and S porch and a chancel. 12thc. sculpture is found in the S portal and in an important tympanum reset inside the church.
10. St Mary, Cholsey, Oxfordshire, England

Parish church
An aisleless cruciform church with rendered nave, crenellated flint crossing tower, south transept and square chancel. Construction appears to be of flint throughout. A plan on show inside the church (1991) indicates that the chancel was originally shorter and apsidal, and that there were two transepts with apsidal chapels. No authority for this plan is given. In 1991 the interior of the nave was inacessible owing to restoration work. By 1998 this had been completed and proved to consist in the main of laying a new floor and altering the liturgical arrangements by installing an altar at the W end of the nave with rows of chairs facing it. According to the churchwarden, the work was overseen by Martin Biddle. The old pulpit remains in its original position, at the E end of the nave and is thus not usable in the new arrangement. The original altar remains in place too, so is presumably used for some services. Romanesque features described below are the S nave doorway, corbels on the S transept, a window in the chancel N wall, and the crossing arches with their capitals.
11. St Andrew, Clewer, Berkshire, England

Parish church
In 1868 Clewer was described as a parish a mile from Windsor, but today it has been almost entirely subsumed by its neighbour. Clewer is at the northern extremity of Windsor, alongside the Thames, whose floodplain has effectively put a stop to expansion in that direction. St Andrew’s is a flint church with a short W tower carrying a shingled broach spire. Otherwise it has a chancel with a S chapel, a nave with N and S aisles, the N continuing eastwards as a chapel, now used as an organ loft, and vestry, and a modern S porch. The present S aisle was the original, early 12thc. nave of the church, and its plain chancel arch now leads to the Brocas chapel; the old chancel rebuilt as a chantry by Sir Bernard Brocas in the 14thc. The present nave was added in the later 12thc., and the three-bay S arcade dates from that time. The present N arcade appears to be of the early 13thc., but there is a record of “a new N aisle with wall repairs” added by Henry Woodyer in 1861. Woodyer may thus have widened an existing aisle. The chancel was also restored by Henry Woodyer in 1868. The plain 12thc. chancel arch is round-headed, of one order with plain hollow-chamfered imposts. Romanesque sculpture is found on the S nave arcade and the font.
12. St Michael, Cumnor, Berkshire, England

Parish church
A large church comprising nave with N aisle, W tower, S transept and square-ended chancel. The church contains an important series of 12thc. corbels. Of these, a group of four are in their original positions on the S nave wall, below the level of the added clerestorey. One is reset at the SW corner of the nave. The remainder (18 in all) have been brought inside the church and reset under the roof trusses of the N, S and W nave walls, and on the N and S walls of the N aisle. Also present are a late 12thc. W doorway and tower arch.
13. St Michael and All Angels, Eaton Hastings, Berkshire, England

Parish church
Aisleless nave with opposed N and S doorways, the former now enclosed in a vestry. W bellcote. There was a 13thc. S aisle, which has been removed leaving the arcade visible. Long, square-ended chancel. The church was restored by Champion, 1870-73. The following 12thc. work is described below: the N nave doorway, windows in the nave and chancel N walls, chancel arch jambs and font.
14. St Mark, Englefield, Berkshire, England

Parish church
An estate church built by Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1857, re-using a good deal of the medieval church that was already there. It consists of a nave with S aisle, chancel with a N chapel (the Englefield Chapel), a tower (added in 1868) at the NW of the nave and a S doorway with a porch. Three bays of the S arcade date from c.1200, while the jambs of the doorway, a pillar piscina and the font are all 12thc.
15. St Thomas, East Shefford, Berkshire, England

Redundant church
Single nave and chancel of c.1100 (12thc. window in N wall, 12thc. paintings on chancel arch wall) with timber bell turret at W end of nave and S nave doorway. The chancel E wall was rebuilt 13thc., and the chancel arch enlarged and a S chancel chapel added, probably c.1463. Romanesque sculpture comprises a font, a pillar piscina and a loose fragment elaborately carved with foliage.
16. All Saints, Faringdon, Berkshire, England

Parish church
The present nave and crossing fall just outside the scope of this Corpus. The only 12thc. sculpture is on the reset doorway to the 19thc. baptistery, towards the W end of the N nave aisle.
17. St James, Finchampstead, Berkshire, England

Parish church
St James's has a rectangular 12thc. nave (two N windows visible inside) and apsidal chancel, with a square red brick tower of 1720. On the N side is a chapel running the length of the chancel and most of the nave with arches from both. This addition is dated 1590 TH (above the outer door). Nave, chancel and N chapel are all rendered. Romanesque sculpture is confined to a font and a pillar piscina.
18. St Mary, Hampstead Norreys, Berkshire, England

Parish church
Substantially 12thc. single nave and 13thc. square chancel almost as wide as the nave. The nave was extended W, and a W tower added (perhaps replacing an earlier one further E) in the 15thc. The N porch also dates from this period. A vestry was added on the N side of the chancel in the 19thc. There was a major restoration in 1879-80, mainly involving the replacement of a screen dividing nave from chancel with the present chancel arch. Remains of an early rood screen were unfortunately destroyed at that time. Romanesque sculpture is found on the N and S nave doorways.
19. St Michael, Lambourn, Berkshire, England

Parish church
Lambourn is a large village (with a population of around 3,000) in west Berkshire, two miles from the Wiltshire border. The river Lambourn rises here, and runs SE through the village. Lambourn is in the heart of the chalk downs of Berkshire and is famous for its association with horse racing. There are more than 50 racing yards in the Lambourn valley, with more than 2,000 horses in training. The church, surrounded by its spacious churchyard, stands in the centre of the village. It is a cruciform building with an aisled and clerestoried nave, crossing tower, transepts and a chancel with one N and two S chapels. Of this the nave, aisles and crossing arches are all late-12thc, the N transept (now housing the organ) is 13thc and the S transept 14thc. The inner chapels are both 14thc in origin, and the outer S chapel, with its battlements and elaborate pinnacles, is 15thc. The chancel, with its spectacular E window, is largely Perpendicular in style. The tower is largely 15thc, while the W front was originally a fine 12thc composition divided into four storeys by stringcourses, with large round-headed windows above the central doorway, an oculus in the gable, and plain round headed windows in the W aisle walls, but a three-light reticulated window introduced in the 14thc has rather disrupted the design. The church was repaired and reseated by T. L. Donaldson in 1849-50, and repairs were carried out by L.E. King of London in 1949-51. Features recorded here are the W doorway and oculus, the nave arcades, the crossing arches and a pillar piscina used as a stoup in the N aisle.
20. St Mary, Long Wittenham, Berkshire, England

Parish church
The church built c.1120 by Walter Giffard, 3rd Earl of Buckingham, consisted of an aisleless nave and a short chancel. A S aisle was added c.1200, running the entire length of the nave, with an arcade of four bays, and a N aisle of three bays was added to the eastern part of the nave c.1350. The piers of the two aisles do not correspond. The 12thc. chancel was extended eastwards to its present length in the 13thc., and a new E window fitted in the 14thc. The chancel was entirely rebuilt in 1850. A S transept was added c.1300, traditionally by Joan, widow of Gilbert de Clare (d1295), as a memorial chapel. It now functions as the vestry. A W tower was added in the 15thc. The chancel arch capitals are the only sculpture remaining from the original 12thc. church.
21. St John the Baptist, Padworth, Berkshire, England

Parish church
A complete 12thc. church with a rectangular aisleless nave and apsed chancel and a shingled W bell-turret. The external masonry is covered with pebbledash rendering throughout. High-quality 12thc. sculpture is to be found on the N and S nave doorways (the S doorway protected by a modern porch), and the chancel arch.
22. St Mary the Virgin, Purley-on-Thames, Berkshire, England

Parish church
Largely of 1870 by Street, but incorporating older fabric. Brick W tower of 1626. Nave with 20thc. N aisle extending along N side of tower. Square chancel with pointed chancel arch. The 12thc. chancel arch has been reset on the N side of the chancel and is described below. There is also a 12thc. carved font.
23. St James, Radley, Berkshire,

Parish church
The village of Radley stands in a loop of the Thames that forms the boundary between the traditional counties of Berkshire (to the W) and Oxford (to the E). The village is now on the NE outskirts of Abingdon, and at the northern edge of the village stands the church and Radley College. St James’s church consists of a nave with a W gallery, a S aisle and S transept (housing the organ), a chancel and a W tower. The S aisle is separated from the nave by five bays of tall wooden piers that carry longitudinal arched braces instead of arches. It was restored and reseated by J. O. Scott in 1900-03. The font is 12thc., as is a corbel discovered during the 1900-03 restoration on the NE of the chancel arch.
24. Reading Museum and Art Gallery, Reading, Berkshire, England

Museum
Reading abbey stones
25. St James RC church, Reading, Berkshire, England

RC church
St James’s stands on the site of the N transept of the Abbey church; now on Forbury Road immediately E of the Forbury Gardens. The original church of 1840, built of flint from designs by Pugin, consisted of an aisleless nave with a S sacristy off the E end, and a semicircular E apse. There was no tower, but a simple bell-turret on the W gable. A major enlargement by Wilfred Mangan of 1925-26 added a S aisle, a narthex (Pugin's doorway being moved west), and an ambulatory around the apse. The sacristy was extended eastwards at this time. Finally a N nave aisle was added by H. Bingham Towner, work completed in 1962. The complex also includes a Priest House, S of the church, and S of this a school (now Forbury Gardens Day Nursery), parallel and similar in form to the church, even to the bell-turret. Access is through an arch at the end of Abbot's Walk into a path running along the W side of the complex. Walls on either side of this path include reset abbey stones. The complex was built on the site of the N transept of the Abbey church, and two masses of rubble marking angles of the transept may be seen at the front of the Priest House. The S boundary wall of the school is built on the line of the N choir arcade, and includes two pier bases. A respond base, belonging to a N transept chapel, may be seen in the Priest House garden. All these remnants of abbey fabric still in situ are dealt with more fully in the entry on the abbey itself. The present entry describes two capitals inside St James's, one remodelled as a font, and fragments of carved stone from the abbey built into the external walls of the church, the Priest House and the walls of the path running along the W side of the group.
26. St Faith, Shellingford, Berkshire, England

Parish church
A complete late 12thc. church of aisleless nave, chancel and W tower, the last with round-headed lower windows but lancets in its upper storeys. There was an internal restoration in 1850, when the chancel floor was raised to the level of the nave floor. More recently, a vestry has been built on the N side of the nave, enclosing the N nave doorway which now gives access to the vestry from inside the church, and which is therefore no longer visible from the exterior. Nevertheless it has here been treated as an external doorway (III 1.(iii)).
27. St Andrew, Sonning, Berkshire, England

Parish church
As it stands the church consists of a rectangular nave and chancel with N and S aisles throughout, the chancel aisles, slightly wider than those of the nave, forming chapels and a vestry. There are nave doorways covered by porches to N and S, and a W tower. The fabric is all of flint with ashlar dressings. The VCH identifies a complex building history beginning in the 13thc., but the overall visual effect is of Woodyer's extensive restoration of 1852. The interest of the church lies in the carved stones, presumably from Reading Abbey, set into the tower (which became unstable and was rebuilt at the Reformation), and in an elaborate pillar piscina, repositioned against a pier of the N arcade opposite the N doorway.
28. All Saints, Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire, England

Parish church
The present church has a 13thc. chancel, a 4-bay nave of c.1300 and a 12thc. W tower of two storeys, the first divided by a string course at the level of the apex of the W doorway, to which a Perpendicular third storey was added. Inside the nave, however, the first bay of the S arcade is a pointed arch constructed from a carved semicircular arch of greater span, which Pevsner suggests was the 12thc. chancel arch. The present c.1300 chancel arch is supported on 12thc. responds and capitals.
29. St Laurence, Tidmarsh, Berkshire, England

Parish church
Single nave with 13thc. polygonal apse and timber W bell turret with shingled pyramidal roof. Opposed N and S nave doorways, the S richly carved and described below, the N later, not included and now enclosed in a vestry. The arcaded font is also included.
30. St James, West Hanney, Berkshire, England

Parish church
The 12thc. work is concentrated on the N side of the church, W of the crossing, and consists of the N nave wall, with round-headed windows and a doorway, and the N transept with a tower of c.1200 lit by lancets. Sculpture is found in the N nave doorway, the respond capitals of the arch linking the nave to the N transept tower, and the font.
31. Windsor Castle, Moat Gardens, Berkshire, England

Castle gardens
Carved stones from Reading Abbey have been used to construct two decorative features in the Moat Gardens. Further carved stones are placed on walls and shelves or lie on the ground. A total of 35 stones were recorded.
32. St Agnes, Spital, Windsor, Berkshire, England

Parish church and Music Centre
Spital is on the southern edge of the town, and the northern edge of Windsor Great Park. The church stands on St Leonard’s Road and was built in yellow brick in 1874. It consists of a nave with a W gallery, a Lady Chapel, added as a S aisle, and a S porch at the W end of the S aisle. In its present use as a Music Centre, the weekly service is held in the Lady Chapel, while the main altar has been removed and replaced by a grand piano. The only Romanesque sculpture here is the 12thc. font.