St Mary the Virgin, Aldermaston
Parish church
The Norman parish church with medieval wall paintings, the Forster tomb and the York Nativity every December.
About
St Mary's is on Church Road, close by Aldermaston Court, and it's older than it looks under the pebbledash. The nave is twelfth century, extended around 1210, with a shingled spire on top. Inside there are wall paintings from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, two thirteenth century glass roundels said to be the oldest glass in Berkshire, and the alabaster tomb of Sir George Forster and his wife Elizabeth from about 1530. Every December since 1957 the village has put on the York Nativity play here, in medieval costume, with the choir singing from the ringing chamber. Tickets are free.
What’s here
- Sunday service at 10.45am, with coffee after
- Grade I listed
- Medieval wall paintings and glass
- The Forster tomb, about 1530
- The York Nativity play, every December since 1957
Venues and community places are listed as EveryVillage partners. We wrote this page ourselves, from information St Mary the Virgin, Aldermaston and others have published. Compiled 2 October 2026 from Historic England's list entry 1117319, the church's entry on A Church Near You (services), the Aldermaston History Group's account of the Forster tomb and the York Nativity's own website, read through search results of those pages. Pinned at the grid reference on Historic England's list entry 1117319. If you help run it, send us a correction or ask us to take the page down.