Almshouses for four widows were built in by the Rev. Robert Dixon. The endowment was increased in , and two of the houses have recently been rebuilt. Several cinerary urns were found in the parish, in Box Meadow.
Aldermaston, lying near both Reading and Newbury, was frequently occupied by both Royalist and Parliamentary troops during the Civil War. In it was the scene of a skirmish between the two parties after the first battle of Newbury. No borough charter has been found, but the development of burghal rights was doubtless aided by the growth of a flourishing market and the privileges obtained by the lord of the manor. Henry I had granted the manor of Aldermaston to Robert Achard, with considerable privileges fn.
In a 13th-century lawsuit these rights were upheld against the encroachments of the Abbot of Reading, who claimed that the manor owed suit at his hundred court and seized fifty-two cattle belonging to Robert the archdeacon, fn. Peter Achard had gallows in the manor in and held the assize of bread and ale for his tenants in Aldermaston.
It seems probable that there was a market here from early times. The right to hold a market was granted by Edward I to Robert Achard, the lord of the manor, in , fn. A fresh charter was obtained from Henry IV, fn.
It is mentioned in Owen's New Book of Fairs in fn. With the grant of the market Robert Achard also obtained the right to hold a yearly fair on the vigil, the feast and the morrow of the Translation of St.
Thomas the Martyr 7 July. It passed to his son and grandson, both named William, in turn. The second William died before , fn. Robert Achard died about , fn. Robert died in , fn. Peter died in , fn. He had no children, fn. Presumably, Joan the wife of Sir Peter Delamare had been a sister or daughter of Robert Achard, and her son Thomas succeeded under the settlement of The boy, however, died in fn.
Elizabeth died in , fn. He further urged that his son had served the Parliament, and offered to pay for his discharge. He died in , fn. Keyser, the present lord of the manor, who resides at Aldermaston Court. Sable a cheveron engrailed between three arrows argent point downwards. Aldermaston Park occupies a considerable portion of the parish of Aldermaston and comprises 1, acres. In fn. In Edward I fn.
Keyser of Aldermaston. Argent a palm tree on a mount vert with a scutcheon azure charged with three pierced molets argent hanging from the branches and a chief azure with a sun therein between two gem ringsor. A fishery is first mentioned in an extent of the manor, dated , fn. A mill which was worth 20 s. A water-mill is mentioned in extents of the manor in the 13th and 14th centuries. At the present day there is one water-mill on the Kennet, to the north-west of the village. The church of ST.
These measurements are all internal. The earliest part of the present building is the nave, which was originally both nave and chancel of an early 12th-century church.
About the chancel was extended eastward, the old chancel being at the same time thrown into the nave, and a transept built on the south side of the original chancel. In the 14th century the tower was added, and early in the 17th century a vestry was built on the south side of the chancel with a vault beneath for members of the Forster family.
The church was thoroughly restored in under the guidance of Mr. Doran Webb, F. Charles E. Keyser, M. The chief works were the removal of various accumulations, the repaving of the chancel and nave, the rebuilding of the east gable and of the arch between the nave and chapel, removing the west gallery and substituting a new ringers' gallery, providing new roofs for the chancel, chapel, and east part of the nave, substituting oak seats and choir stalls for the then existing deal ones and improving the heating apparatus.
At the restoration it was found that the wall of the church had been lined on the inside with a wooden framing covered with plaster to the thickness of several inches. This was taken down and the walls behind made good and decorated with some large tempera paintings. The east window is of three lancets with wide mullions and splayed inner jambs. The window is original, though the south mullion has been restored; internally the opening is spanned by wooden lintels.
The easternmost window in the north wall is a single lancet with a two-centred segmental rear arch. In the still traces of a water drain were found in , and on this authority a modern piscina has been inserted.
Externally the sill has a groove which is stopped under the middle of the window on a square block. The second window is similar, but in the rear arch are a number of Roman bricks. To the west of this is a single 15th-century cinquefoiled light with a restored sill, and an internal head formed by oak lintels.
Above this is a small round-headed opening with sunk spandrels, probably inserted in the 15th century to light the rood-loft. In the east end of the south wall is a semicircular brick arch opening into the vestry and immediately to the west of the vestry is a blocked round-headed doorway of the early 17th century, its arch springing from moulded abaci and having a slightly projecting keystone.
To the west of this is a segmental-headed 14th-century window of two ogee trefoiled lights with a drop rear arch; the jambs only are original.
In the west end of this wall is a low-side round-headed window with a wooden frame, the jambs of which are probably of similar date, and in the wall above is a small square-headed opening with a wooden frame, which probably lighted the rood-loft from the south.
At the eastern angles of the chancel are two-stage diagonal buttresses of the 14th century, while between the two northern lancets a large modern buttress supports the wall, which at this point is considerably bulged. The vestry is lighted on the east by an uncusped pointed window below which is a pointed doorway, on the south by a window of two similar lights, and on the west by another single uncusped light.
All have moulded brick labels. The base of the wall is built of flint, and the upper part of brick which has been pargeted over and incised at the angles in imitation of stone quoins. There is no structural division between the chancel and the nave, but a small break in the north and south walls marks the point of junction between the original 12th-century chancel and the 13th century extension.
At the east end of the 12th-century portion of the north wall of the nave is a 14th-century window of two trefoiled ogee lights with a quatrefoil under a pointed head, a moulded external label, and an oak internal lintel. To the west of this is a 12th-century round-headed doorway with much restored chamfered jambs and a segmental rear arch over which is carved the head of a bearded man.
The doorway is filled with thin walling, in which is inserted a small oval light. Between this doorway and the break in the wall which marks the length of the original nave is a small four-centred recess.
To the west of the break is a small cinquefoiled light like that in the chancel portion of the north wall. The remaining window on this side is a 14th-century insertion of two cinquefoiled ogee lights, each light having an independent external hood mould, while the cusping of the heads is in two orders.
Opening into the south chapel is a pointed arch of a single chamfered order which springs from responds of the same section having moulded abaci and chamfered bases. The eastern abacus is entirely modern, and the western is almost completely worn away. On the west side of the opening is a small four-centred recess similar to and opposite the one in the north wall.
In the west end of the south wall of the nave is a 14th-century window of two trefoiled ogee lights with tracery under a square head, a moulded external label and wooden lintels in lieu of a rear arch. The south chapel has a trefoiled lancet in the east wall the jambs of which are now carried down to the ground to form the jambs of a modern pointed doorway inserted below it. South of this window is a small trefoiled recess with a restored sill. In the south wall is a slightly restored 14th-century window of two trefoiled lights with a quatrefoil under a pointed head; a moulded external label and a two-centre segmental rear arch; to the east is a trefoiled piscina, the projecting basin of which is broken off.
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