All Saints Brightwalden

The last church in my recent visit to West Berkshire and one I kept missing till now. Looking at the outside did not give me the feeling it would show any old features to it and reading the history from Wikipedia only goes to confirm I missed none.
"The Church of England parish church of All Saints existed by the time of the Domesday Book of 1086. The building was demolished in 1863 and replaced by a Gothic Revival one designed by GE Street, who was architect to the Diocese of Oxford. Street retained and re-used some 13th century Early English Gothic features from the original building."

There is a wrought iron arch of sorts over the gate and as you go through you get this view of the South side

The West end on the left and right the North side of the church

Back to the South side

Looking over to the East end, getting a view of the East end wall proved nigh on impossible 

The porch and inside the door to the church

Coming out in the nave and looking down to the chancel

In the chancel you can see the decorated altar with the carved back and above the chancel window

The carving and chancel window

A simple altar cross and candle holders are enough to set it off

Looking back past the choir stalls to the nave

Here we have one bank of choir stalls with the organ behind

Above the small stair way to the pulpit with left the view you get from it

Turn around you get a nice view of the chancel

A charity box sits on the wall by the entrance

The church does have a few memorials you can see including the rather nice First World War Roll of Honour

The memorials seem to honour past rectors

Though taking a photo of them shows the wording hard to read

You can see some very nice stained glass windows and a more modern one

The window is dedicated to Richard Bernard Abraham who was a local physician and his wife Nancy

The other windows are Gothic Revival

Left the window in the bell tower and one the South aisle

Here we look over to the nave

A tub font is in the belltower

Above one of the tall candle holders by the altar in the nave.

Left & right the South aisle

Left the South aisle from the nave

In the bell tower a couple of brasses can be seen on the wall along with pictures and framed bell ringer lists. The brasses I suspect come from the previous church

The churchyard has may headstones

Above a wooden cross fallen over and rotting away the owners name lost


Here we look west towards where the church school is

This part has most graves

Though I doubt many date back further than when the church was built

Even then the words have disappeared on some

Looking back East from under the tree.

Right more graves here on the West end

On the North side is a churchyard extension where the more recent burials take place now

The North side of the church from the churchyard extension

After walking down the road to see the village war memorial I took one last photo of the church.

Till next time I wish you all a pleasant weekend