St. Mary, Datchet, Buckinghamshire

Description

The parish church of St. Mary is a building of stone in the Decorated style, and was rebuilt on an enlarged plan on the former site in 1857-60; it consists of chancel, nave of five bays, aisles, south porch, north transept (recently converted into the sanctuary of a side chapel) and an octagonal tower with spire on the east side of the north transept and containing a clock and 5 bells: all the windows are stained, three being memorials to H.R.H. the Prince Consort: there is a brass to Katherine Lady Berkeley, ob. 1559, and one to Richard Hanbery, 1593, and Ales, his wife, with kneeling effigies: an oak reredos was erected in 1906 as a memorial to the Rev. Canon J. H. Thompson, vicar 1868-1902: there are 650 sittings. In the churchyard is a Celtic cross erected by the women of this parish in memory of Datchet men who fell in the Great War, 1914-18.

Church Records

The parish register dates from the year 1559.