All Saints East Lockinge

This is one church I have been trying to visit for a while since seeing it while driving past it one day. Finally got around to visiting it the other day. Looking at where it is built you would be forgiven in thinking it was built by the manor but in fact it is older than it looks as I found out when I noticed a date for the tower of 1564 on the side of the church. 

The history is from Wikepdia.
"The Church of England parish church of All Saints was built in about the middle of the 12th century. The Norman north door of the nave survives from this time. The chancel and the south chapel parallel with it were built in the 13th century but the chancel was rebuilt early in the 14th century. A south aisle was added in the 13th or early in the 14th century. A window in the north wall of the nave was added in the 15th century, but was altered to accommodate the west belltower that was added in 1564.
In 1886 the south aisle and chapel were demolished, the three-bay arcade between the south aisle and the nave was rebuilt and a new nave and chancel were built in place of the demolished aisle and chapel. This became the main body of the church, leaving the earlier nave and chancel as a north aisle and chapel. The reredos paintings are by the Arts and Crafts movement artist Kate Bunce and their beaten metal frames are by her sister Myra Bunce. Lady Jane Lindsay, presumably a relative of the Colonel, designed the glass of the east window.
The tower has a ring of four bells. The oldest is the treble, cast in 1578 by Joseph Carter of Reading, Berkshire, who later became the master founder of Whitechapel Bell Foundry in London. The third bell was cast at Reading in about 1599. Robert II Wells of Aldbourne, Wiltshire cast the tenor bell in 1793 and he and James Wells cast the small Sanctus bell in about 1795. William Taylor cast the second bell in 1852, presumably at the foundry that the Taylor family then had in Oxford. Currently for technical reasons the bells are unringable.^"
Unfortunately for me I found the doors locked to the church so no photo's inside

You have to come down a long a drive to get to the parking area near the church, then you are greeted by these gates that open to a path taking you to the church. Either side you find it is fenced off

The entrance to the church is though the porch on the South side this one is on the North side

Over to the left you see the bell tower on which is a sundial the marking on which are still visible

Over to the right past  the fence the South side of the church extends in the pastureland

Go over the stile beside the West end of the church and you get to see the end of the South aisle and belltower

The West end of the church looking up the belltower

Going around to the North side and a gated and fenced path leading to the porch that shelters the North door

The North side of the belltower and the date plaque showing 1564

Looking across the churchyard to the North side of the church

The East end and South aisle

The south aisle and side chapel


Some of the headstones near the fence

More near the boundary which are in the nettles

The churchyard seems like it is in the pastureland though not far away seem to be boundary markers for the churchyard

Couple of tombs, one seems longer than the other indicating they were quite tall

 The top of one of the tombs

View of the two tombs with the longer on In the foreground

 Above this tomb is on the East end of the church and belonged to a past rector of the church

By the North porch you can find this old headstone

 That is all I can show you for this week, hopefully I will get to return to take some photos inside. Until next time have a peaceful weekend