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St. Mark

Englefield

Berkshire

C13 south aisle, rebuilt and added to in a late C13 neo-Gothic style in 1857 by Sir George Gilbert Scott, tower and spire of 1868, and further restoration in 1874 and 1891

Architectural Features

Old tile roofs separately over nave and aisles with parapeted gable ends

Large two-light bell stage openings with louvres, quatrefoil plate tracery and hoodmoulds with carved stops

Two small lancets in second stage to north and two-light window beneath in first stage with hoodmould and carved stope

Narrow lancet in second stage to west and shafted cusped lancet in first stage beneath with hoodmould and carved stops

Newel turret to south-west with square first stage, circular second stage and conical tile roof

South aisle: west end: boarded door with moulded arch and hoodmould with carved stops, circular window with plate tracery in gable end above

East end: triple stepped lancets with continuous hoodmould and carved stops

South side: two pairs of lancets flanking C13 south doorway with one order of shafts, uncut beakhead decoration and boarded door

C19 gabled porch with two orders of shafts, moulded arch and hoodmould with carved stops

Two two-light windows to south with hoodmoulds and carved stops, and large three-light east window with geometrical tracery and hoodmould with carved stops

North side: two-light window with hoodmould and carved stops

West end: three lancets with hoodmoulds and carved stops, and circular window with plate tracery in gable end above

Interior: four bay south aisle arcade, three moulded arches to east with round piers, stiff leaf capitals and hoodmoulds with carved stops, C19 chamfered arch to west

C19 four-bay south aisle roof, east lancets with Purbeck marble shafts and carved capitals, shafted south lancets, and squint to north-east

C19 chancel arch, shafted east window, C19 sedile to south and early C16 two-bay four-centred arched arcade to north

C12 pillar piscina in north chapel, C15 wooden screen between chancel and north chapel, C19 reredos, C19 octagonal pulpit, C19 octagonal font, C13 font with trefoiled arcade, and curved C13 image bracket in south aisle to east

Monuments include: circa 1500 chest tomb in chancel to Thomas Englefield with quatrefoil panels, vaulted canopy, and brasses to east, possibly also need as Easter sepulchre

tablet in north chapel to John Englefield of 1605 and three figure, with tablet to Milburg Alpress of 1803 with kneeling woman and child by urn

Other monuments.

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