All Saints, Faringdon, Berkshire

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Location
(51°39′33″N, 1°35′6″W)
Site Location
Faringdon
National Grid Reference
SU 288 957
Boundaries
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Berkshire now Oxfordshire
Diocese
medieval Salisbury now Oxford
Dedication
Type of building/monument
Report authors
  • Ron Baxter
Visit Date
7 May 1990, 2 August 2009

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Feature Sets
Description

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.

History

Before the Conquest, Faringdon was held by Harold. In DS it was a demesne of the Crown, one hide, with the church, being in the possession of the Bishops of Salisbury. Subsequently it became a prebend endowed with the hide. This status was retained until the Dissolution.

Features

Exterior Features

Doorways

Comments/Opinions

Keyser (1911) and Zarnecki (card index) consider it to be by the same workshop as Lockinge.

Bibliography

Victoria History of the Counties of England: Berkshire. London. Vol. 4 (1924), 489-99.

C.E. Keyser, 'The Norman Architecture of Berkshire, repr. from Transactions of the Newbury District Field Club, vol. 5 (1911), 20 and pl.XVII.

C.E. Keyser, 'The Norman Doorways in the County of Berkshire', Berks, Bucks and Oxon Archaeological Journal, vol. 6 (1900), 12.

N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England. Berkshire. Harmondsworth 1966, 139-40.