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The parish church at Lathbury may lie on Saxon foundations. The early twelfth-century nave is the oldest part of the present church. The south aisle was added before 1200 and rebuilt before 1300. The west tower dates from the early thirteenth century, and the north aisle was added and the twelfth-century chancel was rebuilt about a century later. The clerestory and embattled parapets were added during the fifteenth century, and the south porch dates from the nineteenth century. Of particular interest are a twelfth-century carved tympanum near the pulpit, carvings of the same period on the capitals of pillars, the faded remains of medieval wall paintings above the chancel arcades and arch, and several sixteenth-century black letter texts. Extensive restoration of the church was carried out during the 1990s |