Tilehurst, Parish Church Of St Michael c.1955

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St Michael's has a south aisle dating back to the early 14th century, its windows with Y and intersecting tracery, but the brick tower with clasping buttresses is 1737. The remainder of the building is 1856, designed by Street, including the rather wild spire with enlarged pinnacles, flying buttresses and very large lucarnes. Although not especially attractive either inside or out, the church has stained glass on the south and east in the chancel, and in the south aisle east window there is a Virgin and large angels on a patterned deep blue ground. The windows date from 1856. Sir Peter Valore, a merchant of Utrecht, has an alabaster monument of two recumbent effigies praying, with children below and in front left and right. The back arch has strap work and trophies.