Description
Stanford Dingley, a village and a parish in Berks, 4 1/4 miles NNW of Aldermaston station on the G.W.R., and 9 W by S of Reading, with a post office under Reading; money order and telegraph office, Bradfield. Acreage, 965; population, 144. The manor belongs to the Hartley family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £176 with residence. The church is an ancient and interesting building of flint and rubble of the Transition Norman period, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and a belfry of wood. The S doorway is of a very uncommon design, the inner head being trefoiled within a well-moulded Pointed arch. There are three brasses, one of 1444 and two small ones of the time of James I.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
