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- 1. St Laurence, Reading, Berkshire, England
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Parish church St Laurence’s is in the centre of Reading, originally standing beween the W gate of the Abbey and the Hospitium of St John. It now faces Friar St with the Town Hall to the N. It consists of a nave with a N aisle only, a chancel with a N chapel and a 16thc. W tower. Construction is of flint. The original church on the site may have been early 12thc., but according to VCH all that remains standing of this is the S nave wall, the lower part of the tower S wall and a window reset in the SW of the nave. The foundation of the Hospitium of St John in 1196 may have acted as a spur to enlarge the church by demolishing the old tower to extend the nave, and at the same time new N and S doorways were added. The S is still in place, and fragments from the N are set in a blocked arch in the N nave aisle. The N aisle itself and the chancel chapel apparently followed in the 13thc. The N arcade was rebuilt in 1522, and the church was repaired and reseated by Joseph Morris of Reading in 1867-69. Late 12thc. sculpture is found on the S nave doorway and in a blocked arch in the N aisle wall, but more interesting are the carved stones from the Reading Abbey site used to construct what must be called a folly in the churchyard NE of the church (see III.4.(i)).
- 2. St Faith, Shellingford, Berkshire, England
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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)).
- 3. St Mary, Shinfield, Berkshire, England
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Parish church Flint nave with 19thc. S aisle, square early 14thc. chancel, S chapel (dated 1526), and red brick W tower of 1664. There is a 12thc. N doorway, protected by a timber porch.
- 4. Holy Rood, Sparsholt, Berkshire, England
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Parish church 13thc. W tower, 14thc. nave, chancel and S transept (N transept removed). Plain 12thc. font and late 12thc. - 13thc. sculpture on N and S doorways.
- 5. St Denys, Stanford-in-the-Vale, Berkshire, England
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Parish church The only Romanesque sculpture surviving from the original aisleless church decorates the S doorway. The N doorway, reset when an aisle was added on that side in the 14thc., is of similar date but falls outside the stylistic criteria of the Corpus.
- 6. Manor House, Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire, England
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Manor house Sutton Courtenay is a picturesque village in the NE of Berkshire, alongside the river Thames and some 2 miles S of Abingdon. The village is a long one, extending over a series of minor roads that run S from the river towards Didcot. The oldest parts of the village, including the parish church, the manor house and Norman Hall, and the 13thc. rectory house, now known as the Abbey, are grouped at the N end, near the river. Norman Hall is a rectangular building of late 12thc. date, built of rubble with ashlar quoins. It is aligned from E to W, and it has thus been suggested (VCH) that it may once have been a chapel, but there is no direct evidence for this. It now has 20thc. additions to the N, and is a private residence. The only visible 12thc. work is on the S doorway, towards the W end of the S wall; the simple round-headed N doorway, described as “continuously moulded” by Pevsner, is now inside, linking the 12thc. hall to the modern addition. This is unfortunately no longer available for examination. According to VCH there were originally four pointed lancets in the S wall. Two survive towards the E end, the westernmost of which has been recently given new jambs, and there is another in the W wall. The three-light E window is 15thc. work.
- 7. St Michael, Sunninghill, Berkshire, England
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Parish church The present building dates from the 19thc., but includes a reused 12thc. doorway.
- 8. All Saints, Swallowfield, Berkshire, England
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Parish church Flint-faced 12thc. nave and 13thc. chancel roofed as one, with a timber-framed bellcote with brick nogging at W end. The chancel E wall is 19thc. and there is an added N transept of ashlar. Features of interest are the N and S nave doorways, the latter heavily restored.
- 9. St Mary, Thatcham, Berkshire, England
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Parish church The elaborate and heavily restored (T.Hellyer, 1857) S doorway, evidently moved to its present position when aisles were added to the nave in the 13thc., is all that survives of the 12thc. sculpture.
- 10. St Laurence, Tidmarsh, Berkshire, England
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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.
- 11. St Mary, Upton, Berkshire, England
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Parish church Aisleless nave and chancel of c.1100 with timber bell-turret. Three original windows in nave and one in chancel, all uncarved. Romanesque sculpture on S doorway (plain 12thc. N doorway) and chancel arch and a plain font.
- 12. St Leonard, Wallingford, Berkshire, England
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Parish church The present church consists of a nave with S aisle and W tower, and an aisleless chancel (with chancel arch) terminating in an apse (with apse arch). There is some herringbone masonry in the nave N wall, suggesting an 11thc. date for the earliest work. The church was used as a Parliamentary barracks during the siege of 1646, and was left in a ruinous state with only parts of the chancel and N wall still standing. There were repairs in 1656, 1695 and 1700, but the church owes its present appearance to Hakewill's restoration of 1849-50, which included the rebuilding of the apse, and the replacement of the S aisle, the W tower and the font.
- 13. Wantage Register Office, Berkshire, England
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chapel originally, now Register Office The 12thc. doorway of the former Latin School was reused as the entrance to the chapel of King Alfred's Grammar School (by J. B. Clacy 1849-50). This chapel now functions as Wantage Register Office.
- 14. St Mary, Wargrave, Berkshire, England
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Parish church The church was burnt down in 1914 and rebuilt by W. Fellowes Prynne, incorporating some of the original fabric. The 17thc. brick W tower remains. Nave with S aisle and remains of a blocked 12thc. arcade in the N wall. N transept, square chancel. A 12thc. doorway has been reset towards the W end of the N nave wall, and there is a disused plain font, probably 12thc., in the churchyard.
- 15. St Laurence, West Challow, Berkshire, England
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Parish church Single nave and chancel with 14thc. double bellcote. 12thc. N doorway and font.
- 16. St James, West Hanney, Berkshire, England
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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.
- 17. St Mary, White Waltham, Berkshire, England
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Parish church Aisled nave, S transept and chancel, all 13thc. or later. In 1868 the majority of the church, except the chancel, was rebuilt and a W tower added, and in 1889 a N transept was built. Inside, the E and S tower arches are reused structures of c.1100, the E arch plain and the S carved. The S doorway includes two reused 12thc. capitals.
- 18. All Saints, Wokingham, Berkshire, England
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Parish church A substantial church, comprehensively restored by Woodyer, 1864-66, with W tower of brown conglomerate, five-bay nave with N and S aisles and chancel with chapels to N and S. No Romanesque sculpture was found, but Woodyer's S doorway may be a copy of a 12thc. original.
- 19. All Saints, Woolstone, Berkshire, England
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Parish church Aisleless nave with chancel and S transept. The nave, with its carved S doorway, is of c.1200, as is the chancel arch. Curiously, although the S transept appears to be a mid-13thc. addition, its entrance arch has scallop capitals.
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