“The east windows of chancel and chapel have the best curvilinear Decorated tracery in the county…In the reredos every crocket and finial has broken into bud. To the right of the altar a Green Man starts out of the leaves, vomiting foliage.”
Category: Berkshire
Shottesbrooke, St John, Berkshire, **
“Shottesbrooke was erected in 1337, a rare example of a church built from scratch in the Decorated style and unaltered since…Light pours in from all four points of the compass. Decorated windows are filled with curvilinear tracery, and a clear west end admits the evening light.”
Langley Marsh, St Mary, Berkshire, ****
Disappointingly closed…
Bisham, All Saints, Berkshire, **
“On the north side of the Hoby Chapel is a poignant memorial to George Vansittart-Neale, a young Etonian who died at the age of fourteen in 1904. The epitaph reads, ‘This little workman will never need to be ashamed. In his simple faith he found the rock of ages, in his wondering love he soared upward to the fatherhood of God and when the call reached him he was ready.’”
