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V IL LA G E S D IR E C TO RY — 1917.

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Groome Thom as, estate agent to S. B. Hissey James, fanner, W okingham road
Johnson Fredk. gardener to S. B. Joel esq
Joel esq. Maiden Erlegh estate office
Hallaway John, stud groom to Solomon Lewington Jesse, m ilk seller, Loddon brdg
Spong Mrs. Dreadnought P.H
B.
Joel esq. Home farm, Maiden Erlegh
Harman
Frederick
Jonathan,
farmer, Sutton & Sons, seed m ers. Trial grounds
.Bulmershe C ourt farm (letters through Taylor Ernest, station master
W ilson Francis Harry, builder, F a irligh t;
W oodley)
T. N. 214
Hatch G eorge, farmer, Lower Earley farm
W
ooldridge Hy. J.school m aster,School ho
Hatch W illiam , farm er, Marsh farm
E l T G L E F I E I i D is a village and parish.
m iles north-w est from Theale railway
station on the Great W estern railway, 42^
miles from London, 5 west from Reading
and 3 south from Pangbourne station, in
the Southern division of the county, hun­
dred of Theale, Reading petty sessional
division, Bradfiold union, county court
district of Reading, rural deanery of
Bradfield, archdeaconry of Berks and dio­
cese of Oxford.
This parish is said to
take its name from being the site of a
aattle fought between the Danes and
Saxons A.D. 871.
The church of St.
Mark, restored in 1857, and the chancel
■'ebuilt at the sole expense of the late
Richard Benyon esq. is a bu ilding of flint
>nd stone, consisting of chancel with
lorth aisle, nave, south aisle, south porch
and a western tower with broach spire,
containing 6 bells, presented by Mr. Ben­
yon in 1878; the Englefield chapel, which
-s now used as an organ chamber, was
dded to the north side of the chancel in
¿514, having been for a series of years the
burial place of that family, which became
'xtin ct on the death of Sir Henry Charles
linglefield bart. 21st March, 1882; Sir
Thomas Englefield knt. Speaker of the
•louse of Comm ons in 1496, and in the
..rsfc Parliament of Henry VIJI. the
1Dunder of the chapel, is here bu rie d ; his
monument, an elegant altar-tom b, surlounted by a canopy and once bearing
!. rasses, stands on the north side of the
. ominunion table; and there is also in
he chapel a m onum ent to Sir Francis
ilnglefield bart. ob. Oct. 26, 1631, and
ane (Browne) his wife, with effigies of
; oth, kneeling at a desk, and of several
hildren, besides other monum ents of the
’ nglefield fa m ily ; there is also a monulent to Charles Benyon, lieutenant in
.M .S. “ A jax,’7 killed while attempting
•> board a French vessel off the Isle of
Ib a ; on the north wall is a m ural tablet
i ’ black marble, with epitaph by Dryden,
> John Paulet, fifth Marquess of Winhester, of Basing, Hants, who held Basing
Douse for four yrears for K ing Charles I.
1 at the m ansion being eventually stormed

by the Parliamentary forces was burnt to
the g r o u n d ; the Marquess died March
6th, 1674; the m onum ent is surm ounted
by a shield of arms and the m oto “ Donee
pax redit t e r r is ;” a portion of this m on u ­
m ent, hitherto m issing, together with
three other sepulchral stones, were d is­
covered in the pavement of the church in
Septem ber, 1878, during some alterations
then proceeding, and the four slabs are
now fixed upon the su rfa ce; that belong­
ing to the m onum ent of the Marquess
bears a long inscription, detailing his
public services, marriages and issu e; the
others are inscribed to Honora (de Burgh),
his second wife, 1661; John Paulet, her
eldest son, 1660; and to Honora Paulefc,,
her youngest daughter, 1660; in the south
aisle is a beautifully sculptured mural
m onum ent to Mary, wife of Richard Ben­
yon esq. 1777, and another to Paulet
W right esq. 1779; over the pulpit is a
mural brass inscribed to Richard de Beau­
voir Benyon esq. 1854; in the south aisle,
under two obtuse arches in the wall, are
two recumbent effigies; one of these is a
stone figure of a knight in full arm our,
with a surcoat, and bearing his shield
upon his arm ; the other figure is that of
a lady in the costum e of the 14th century,
and is carved out of a solid piece of o a k ;
the arcade between the nave and south
aisle has Early English arches with very
bold m ouldings supported on plain round
massive pillars, with Transition Norman
c a p s; in the chancel is a piscina, dis­
covered in rem oving part of the wall for
the introduction of a window and se d ilia ;
in 1878 a massive signet ring, of pure
gold, of 16th century date and unusually
large size, was found in the ch u rch yard ;
it bears a sard, engraved with a helmeted
head in profile, inclosed by a cable m ould­
ing : the church was partially rebuilt iq,
1874, at a cost of ¿2 ,2 0 0 , and restored in
1891, at a cost of ¿4 5 0 , defrayed by the
patron : there are 265 sittings.
The
register of baptisms and marriages dates
from the year 1567; burials, 1569. The
living is a rectory, net yearly value ¿2 7 5 ,
with residence and 26 acres of glebe, let