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Salisbury (medieval)
Chapel
Sotwell is a village in the Thames valley between Didcot to the W and Wallingford to the E. The present church has an aisleless nave and chancel with timber bell-turret capped by a short broach spire, all of 1883-84 by S.R.Stevenson. It incorporates several features from the church demolished in 1883: two reset window heads on the exterior of the chancel, that in the S wall decorated with chip-carving; two snmall heads reset in the interior N and S walls of the nave, and a respond or nook-shaft capital reset in the interior N nave wall.
Chapel
Marlston is a hamlet in West Berkshire, 10 miles W of Reading. There is no distinct village centre, and the area is largely occupied by the twin schools of Brockhurst and Marlston House. The chapel stands in the school grounds, and was built substantially by Butterfield in 1855, of flint with red tile roof. It has a single nave with a bell turret at W end, and a square-ended chancel of two bays. There is a vestry in the position of a N transept, and facing doorways at the W end of the nave, the S under a porch. The N doorway is of c.1200, and there is a pillar piscina of the same period in the chancel.
Hospital, former
The former Hospitium of St John stands to the north of St Laurence's Church, at the edge of the churchyard. The north aisle of the church formerly served as the hospital's chapel. The building is of flint and limestone rubble with ashlar facings, and several carved stones, presumably from the abbey, are incorporated into the rubble walls.
Parish church
The church has a Perpendicular west tower but the rest of the exterior dates from the restoration and reconstruction in 1854 by T.H. Wyatt. The church guidebook suggests that the whole church, except the tower was demolished and rebuilt. However, as Pevsner suggests, the details of the nave arcade, and a number of fragments survived from the 12thc.
Parish church
The present building consists of a chancel and S chapel, rebuilt 1907-13; a 13th-c N transept and nave, with a late 13th-c W porch; a S transept rebuilt in the 15thc and 16thc; and a central tower, heightened in the 15thc.
Parts of the arches of the tower crossing may be 12thc in origin.
Parish church
The proportion of the nave suggests that the nave may be Anglo-Saxon in date. The N arcade dates from the early or mid 12thc. while the S arcade of the late 12thc. was designed to follow its overall design but with more modern detailing. The font, with its lively naïve carving, also dates from the 12thc. In the first half of the 13thc. the chancel arch was built and in the 15thc. the nave was raised in height by the addition of the clerestory.
Parish church
Although the church has a good collection of Anglo-Saxon sculpture and some Norman fragments, none of the fabric appears to date from before the 13thc, which is essentially an E.E. chancel with many Perpendicular additions.
Parish church
A spired church in a late 13thc. style by G. E. Street, 1862-63. It contains an arcaded font which is probably medieval rather than 19thc.
Parish church
This is a large church with a nave dating from the 13th and 14thc. The nave arcades were built in the early 13thc. but in the 14thc. were raised and therefore widened, probably doubling their height. The only possible 12thc. fabric is the capital of the east respond of the south arcade, which is a crude scallop. The crossing tower dates from the 14thc. and the chancel and transepts from the 15thc.
Parish church
The present building consists of a chancel rebuilt in neo-Norman style in 1874; a S aisle to chancel built 1902; a nave, rebuilt c.1834; a S aisle to nave and S porch of 1902, and a N aisle of 1815.
The re-used nave S door and the font are all that survive of the 12thc church.