Editing Wallingford, Oxfordshire (section)

=== St Mary-le-More Church ===
[[File:St Mary-le-More - geograph.org.uk - 782867.jpg|thumb|St Mary-le-More's church]]
The Church of [[St Mary-le-More, Wallingford|St Mary-le-More]] is located in a prominent position in the town square behind Wallingford Town Hall. The church appears in records from 1077, when the [[advowson]] belonged to [[St Albans Cathedral|St Alban's Abbey]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|title=The Victoria history of Berkshire. edited by P. H. Ditchfield and William Page.|last1=Ditchfield|first1=P. H.|last2=Page|first2=William|date=1906|publisher=Constable|location=London|doi = 10.5962/bhl.title.28982|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/28982}}</ref> The west [[bell tower]] was originally 12th century, but its upper stages were rebuilt in a [[English Gothic architecture#Perpendicular Gothic|Perpendicular Gothic]] style<ref name=":2" /> out of the stone from [[Wallingford Castle]] when it was demolished by [[Oliver Cromwell]] after the [[English Civil War|Civil War]]. The [[nave]] and [[Aisle#Architecture|aisle]] were built in the 13th and 14th century, and the [[chancel]] was built later. However, all were rebuilt in 1854 to designs by the [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic Revival]] architect [[David Brandon (architect)|David Brandon]].<ref name=":02"/>

The west window of the north [[aisle]] has [[stained glass]] made in 1856 by [[Thomas Willement]]. The [[pulpit]] was made in 1888 by the sculptor [[Edward Onslow Ford|Onslow Ford]]. The church tower features a [[Change ringing|ring]] of ten bells.<ref name=":4">{{Cite journal|last=Hayes|first=Francis C.|date=March 1958|title=Three Bell Ringers|journal=South Atlantic Bulletin|volume=23|issue=4|pages=12|doi=10.2307/3198317|issn=0038-2868|jstor=3198317}}</ref> A ring of eight including the tenor was cast in 1738 by [[Richard Phelps (bell-founder)|Richard Phelps]] and Thomas Lester of the [[Whitechapel Bell Foundry]].<ref name=":4" /> Mears and Stainbank of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry re-cast the second bell of that ring, now the fourth bell of the present ring, in 1887,<ref name=":4" /> the year of the [[Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria|Golden Jubilee]] of [[Queen Victoria]]. In 2003 the Whitechapel Bell Foundry cast a new treble and second bell,<ref name=":4" /> increasing the number of bells to ten.