Aldworth Church, Berkshire - Stone Carving - RP postcard

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• Picture / Image:  Aldworth Church, Berkshire - Stone Carving found concealed in the brickwork
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Aldworth is a small village and civil parish in the English county of Berkshire, close to the modern northern county boundary with Oxfordshire. It is in the rural area between Reading, Newbury and Streatley. The parish includes the neighbouring hamlet of Westridge Green.

Aldworth is on the high ground of the Berkshire Downs, just off the B4009 road between Newbury and Streatley. Westridge Green is nearby, at grid reference SU564797

The Church of England parish church of Saint Mary the Virgin contains numerous effigial monuments to the De La Beche family.^[4] The collection is the largest number of medieval memorials to a single family in a parish church.^[2] The figures are supposed to be life size representations but they show some of the knights as over seven feet tall, which has led to their being called the Aldworth Giants. Originally thought to have been erected by the most influential member of the family, Sir Nicholas De La Beche (sometimes erroneously called 'Lord De La Beche'^[5]) in the 1340s, historians now suggest they date from various periods.^[4]

Many of the effigies were damaged by Parliamentarian iconoclasts during the Civil War in the 17th century. Many of the knights are missing the lower part of their legs, noses and arms, presumably because they were the easiest parts to break off. Parliamentarians may have seen the giants as a symbol of royalty, although many churches were ransacked in the same period.

The ashes of the poet Laurence Binyon were scattered in the churchyard^[2] and there is a slate memorial to him. Alfred, Lord Tennyson's parents-in-law are buried here.^[2]

type=real photographic (rp)

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=berkshire

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=unposted