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All Saints

All Saints

Bisham

Berkshire

Dates from mid C12, of which only the tower remains

Architectural Features

Tile gabled roofs, separate over nave and aisles

The west wall has a C19 doorway, and above this a small C12 round-headed window, with widely splayed inner jambs, but restored externally

The bell chamber has original coupled round-headed lights on all four sides, with crudely carved chevron ornament, and labels formed by a string course running round the walls at the arch springing level

Above this is a brick, embattled parapet, and a pyramidal tile roof

All windows are C19, except the late C16 'Hoby' window in the east wall of the south chapel

Two bay, C19 arcades in the style of the C14, open into the north aisle and south chapel

In the east wall of the south chapel is the early C17 Hoby window of six-lights with two shields in each, and an inscription showing that it was put up in 1609 in memory of Sir Philip and Sir Thomas Hoby

Monuments: A fine C16 monument against the south wall of the chapel, erected by Dame Elizabeth Hoby, in memory of her brothers, comprising an alabaster altar tomb, built into the wall in an arched recess, with the recumbent figures of the two brothers

On the right of this, a C16 coloured marble monument to the memory of Elizabath Lady Hoby

In the centre, under a canopy formed by an entablature supported at either end of Corinthian columns, and inclosing a semicircular arched recess, are the kneeling figures of Lady Hoby and her children

In the centre of the chapel, is a marble monument to Margaret Cary, wife of Sir Edward Hoby, in three stages, the lower two forming a base from which rises an obelisk between four swans

In the north east corner of the north chancel aisle is an early C16 tomb of Purbeck marble, to the memory of Mrs