St. Mary, Shaw-cum-Donnington, Berkshire

Description

The church of St. Mary, rebuilt in 1840, is an edifice of stone in the Norman and Decorated styles, consisting of chancel, with organ chamber and vestry, added in 1878 at a cost of £2,000, nave, south porch and a western tower, containing 6 bells: in the chancel are memorial windows to H. R. Eyre esq. the Rev. G. F. Everett, a former rector, and others: in the church is an inscribed brass, erected by the county of Berks to the late Lieut. Charles George Eyre, Imperial Yeomanry, who fell at Sterksfontein, South Africa, during the Boer war, 1899-1901: a lych gate was erected by the late W. P. Blackburn-Maze esq. in memory of Evelyn Agnes Marion Blackburn-Maze: in 1878, during the levelling of the ground on the north side of the churchyard, an ancient British cinerary urn, 18 inches high and 16 wide, was discovered, ornamented with zigzag lines, produced by means of some pointed instrument: there are 377 sittings.

Church Records

The register dates from the year 1650.