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All Saints

All Saints

Wokingham

Berkshire

Late C14 on an older site, tower and clerestory added C15, chancel and aisles largely restored in the style of the C14, in 1864-6 by Henry Woodyer

Architectural Features

Lead roofs to nave and tower, tiles elsewhere

South doorway between second and third windows is C12 in style, with zig-zag ornament

one of the tie beams has a date of 1631 carved in it and the inscription '1L & T.S.'. High north and south arcades, each of five bays, the outer ones on the east and west are four-centred arches and wider than the intermediate, which are two-centred

The octagonal bases are probably Norman, with a roll and hollow chamfer mould

The aisle roofs are C19, with carved hammer-beam trusses and plain rafters

the reredos is of carved stone

A carved oak screen divides the chancel from the nave, and an iron screen the chapel

The C15 font is octagonal with traceried, panelled sides containing roses and other flowers

and has a hollow chamfered under-edge carved with inter-twined tree branches

Stained glass east window by Hardman

Monuments: include a small black marble slab on the north wall of the vestry, with a Latin inscription to Thomas Godwin of Christ Church Oxford, Bishop of Bath and Wells, born in Wokingham, and buried there in 1590

On the south wall of the south aisle, is an undated C16 mural monument with a brass, enclosed in a rounded-headed panel of black marble, enriched by a guilloche

on the brass, figures of a man and woman kneeling at a desk, with an inscription below them in English verse