Church of St Denys

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STANFORD-IN-THE-VALE
CHURCH GREEN (West side)
Church of St. Denys

(Formerly listed as Church of St. Dennis)

21/11/66

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Church. Late C12, west tower, north aisle and north porch added in the late C13/early C14, south porch and clerestory added in early C15. Coursed limestone rubble, limestone ashlar dressings; lead roof; stone slate roof to north porch.

Nave and chancel, north aisle continued as vestry, north and south porches, west tower. Early C14 four-light east window of Kentish tracery; south wall of chancel has two early C14 two-light windows, one early C14 three-light window of Kentish tracery and a scratch dial; similar two-light window in north wall adjoins early C14 priest's doorway with pointed arch and moulded architrave. The north aisle adjoins the priest's door and extends the full length of the nave; east of the porch is one early C14 two-light window with carved heads to label mould terminals and two early C14 two-light windows and one three-light window much restored in late C19; west of the porch is one early C14 two-light window with restored right jamb and in the west wall a late C13 stepped three-light window.

North doorway of c.1300 has pointed arch with moulded architrave and stiff-leaf capitals; late C18 plank door. Early C14 gabled porch has pointed arch with chamfered architrave to doorway and two-light windows in each side wall. South wall of nave has two early C14 one-light windows and two early C14 two-light windows, the top of the east window having been blocked in the late C19; over the porch is an early C15 four-light flat-headed window. Late C12 architrave and scalloped capitals to engaged columns; C18 plank door.

Early C15 porch with crenellated parapet, two-light windows with label moulds in side walls and a four-centred arch with moulded architrave and carved heads to label mould terminals. Early C15 clerestory with three three-light mullioned and double chamfered windows; early C15 crenellated parapet.

West tower is of three stages: offset corner buttresses rise to the top of the first stage with late C13 one-light windows; late C13 second storey with two-light windows is separated from early C14 third storey by original corbel table; third storey has early C14 two-light windows with crenellated parapet and gargoyles. Gabled roofs, lean-to roof over north aisle; the steeply pitched north porch stands clear of the north aisle. Fleur-de-lys surmounts nave parapet.

Interior: Late C19 stained glass, including some reset C14 glass in chancel; C18/C19 ledger stones on chancel floor, three C17 ledger stones in south-east corner especially to John Heigham, d.1623; in north-east corner is brass to Roger Campdene, rector, d.1398; mid C18 wall tablet. Two early C17 carved doors to aumbry in north wall and early C14 piscina and Decorated style pyx canopy in south wall.

Late C13 doorway to vestry and late C13 squint to north aisle. Late C15 three-bay chancel roof with moulded beams and joists is arch-braced to corbels. Late C13 chancel arch.

Nave has C18 ledger stones in floor and a richly carved 5-sided Jacobean pulpit set on a late C19 base; late C19 benches; late C19 stained glass except east and west windows of south wall and the west window have some C14 reset glass. Nave has C17 seven-bay king post roof, arch braced with traceried spandrels to original C13 corbels. Late C13 triple chamfered arch to west tower; late C13 three-bay arcade, with double-chamfered arches dying into octagonal piers, to the north aisle.

North aisle has richly carved Jacobean font with cover; doorway with splayed and pointed arch to rood loft stairs; late C19 lean-to roof. Three C13 stone coffin lids in porch.

Listing NGR: SU3419093467

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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 226-227
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924), 483-484
Morley, HT, Monumental Brasses of Berkshire, (1924), 197
Penstone, J J, A Visit to the Village Church of Stanford-in-the-Vale, whilst undergoing restoration in Monumenta Anglicana, (1851), 10-28
Berkshire Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Archaeological Journal in Berkshire Buckingham and Oxfordshire Archaeological Journal, Vol. 2 No 4, (January 1897), 122

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