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St Gregory

St Gregory

Welford

Berkshire

1852-5 by T. Talbot Bury, the Norman tower taken down and re-built in the late C19

Architectural Features

Three bay chancel with stone vaulted roof, carved leaf bosses and ribs springing off leaf capitals on marble colonnettes

Pointed arched arcading forming sedilia around walls and stone access stair to pulpit built into north side of chancel arch

Fittings: reset brasses on South wall of chancel, depict John Younge and his family and a cleric. west wall of north aisle has monument to the Reverend Thomas Shirley and family 1753, a rectangular tablet with shouldered architrave and cambered top surmounted by obelisk with draped lamp in coloured marbles

In the tower are five marble tablets, one with portrait bust, to the Mundy family, all of late C17 date

On west wall of south aisle is a re-set monument in carved stone and marble of kneeling female figure in niche flanked by Ionic columns supporting frieze and aedicule

Beneath this is an inscribed tablet with kneeling figures of 12 girls and 7 boys, Latin inscription to Anna, daughter of William Rede, wife of Adrian Fortescue and Thomas Parry, died in 1585 in her 75th year

C11 arcaded font on C20 base.