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St Andrew

Sonning

Berkshire

Originally Norman

Architectural Features

Flint with Bath stone dressings and tile roof

South door has a roll mould surround, over it a Norman window, two lancets in an arched surround with a shell shape in tympanum

MONUMENTS: north aisle

Monument to Anne Clark wife of Sir John Clark of Walford Co.Warwick.1653

A bust in a circular niche with architrave surround, side swags, flanking pilasters, broken entablature, segmental pediment with central cartouche of arms, carved base

Adjoining are two carved stone armorial monuments

Hidden by the organ is a monument with barley sugar columns

A kneeling figure in niche with drapery, flanking columns on scroll corbels, and arched head

On south wall are some figures from a C16 tomb found during the 1853 restoration

Under the tower - The Rich Monument

Four white marble cherubs carrying a black marble table on which stand two large carved urns with inscriptions

Under the table is carved heaped drapery and a cartouche of arms lying flat: Other monuments include one to William Barker of Sonning, 1758 by Westmacott, brasses to the Barker family, C15, C16 and C17 and one to Lord Stowell,1836.

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