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- 1. St James, Ruscombe, Berkshire, England
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Parish church 12thc. flint chancel, brick nave and W tower of 1638-39. The only features of interest are a pillar piscina and the recut font.
- 2. St Andrew, Sonning, Berkshire, England
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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.
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