| Established January 17 1881 |
| All Saints, Brightwalton, Berks Newbury branch of the ODG |
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Dedication: All Saints, Brightwalton Service Ringing: Sun 9.30(4) Practice night: By arrangement The Bells:
The following information comes from the book by David Vince.
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| Bell | Weight cwt-qr-lb |
Strike Note |
Date cast |
Founder | Foundry location |
Inscription |
| treble | 3-2-2 | E | 1925 | Mears & Stainbank | Whitechapel | MEARS & STAINBANK, FOUNDERS, LONDON, 1925 [M] |
| 2 | 3-2-14 | D | 1922 | Mears & Stainbank | Whitechapel | [Fig 25] CAST A.D. 1600. [Fig 25] RE-CAST A.D. 1922 [Fig 25] M. & S. LONDON. [M] |
| 3 | 3-3-0 | C | 1400# | Wokingham foundry | Wokingham | [F2] [C] [F4] Ave Maria |
| 4 | 4-3-0# | B | 1627 | Ellis Knight I | Reading | PRAYES THE LORD X627 |
| 5 | 6-1-0# | A | 1816 | James Wells | Aldbourne | JAMES WELLS ALDBOURN WILTS FECIT 1816 [B] [B] [B] [B] [B] |
| Tenor | 8-1-21 | G | 1922 | Mears & Stainbank | Whitechapel | HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD . A.D. 1922. MEARS & STAINBANK. FOUNDERS, LONDON [M] |
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Notes:
![]() Inscription copied from F.Sharpe The Church Bells of Berkshire.Page 55. The Bells have an interesting history. Four of them were brought from the old Saxon church and now form the middle four of the ring of six. The former treble bore the inscription: “THE RAYNE OF THE QVENE 42 E R E B C W 1600”. The tenor bell was given to the parish in 1922 by the Reverend Henry Howard and his family in memory of two sons who fell in World War I. Architecture:Points of interest in church: Norman tub font moved from the old Saxon church which is shown in an oil painting near the door. Stained glass window in Baptistry. Two pillars made of unusual blue-black stone. Built in 1863, All Saints replaces a small Saxon church which stood 200 yards to the North East, shown in an oil painting on the right of the entrance. The local Lord of the Manor, Philip Wroughton of Woolley Park, donated the land and paid most of the £4,500 it cost to build the new church which was designed by G.E.Street, then living in Wantage. It is built of hammer-dressed Bisley stone in the Gothic Revival Style. Inside, to the right, are two columns made of an unusual smooth blue-black rock which feels colder to the touch than the stone stylised capitals above them. This is 'blue lias', a type of rock found in the cliffs near Lyme Regis on the Dorset coast.
The window was designed by Michael Halliday, made and fitted by Lawes and Barraud in 1868. It commemorates Florence Georgina Wroughton who died in infancy in 1859 and shows ‘Our Lord’s Blessing on the children’. In 1922 the Rev Henry Howard and his family donated the a bell (now the tenor) to the parish in memory of two sons killed in action during the 1914 - 1918 War. A memorial brass to the memory of Major Bernard Howard and Lieutenant H C Mowbray Howard is fixed to the south wall of the nave. References:
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