page_title: Nettlebed
section_title: Parish church
hierarchical_section_title: Nettlebed / History / Parish church
caption_attribution_description: English: East window of the chancel of St Bartholomew's parish church, Nettlebed, Oxfordshire. The stained glass in the three main lights was designed and made in 1970 by John Piper and Patrick Reyntiens. The glass in the trefoils above is older.
context_page_description: Nettlebed is a village and civil parish in the Chiltern Hills about 4 ¹⁄₂ miles northwest of Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire and 6 miles southeast of Wallingford. The parish includes the hamlet of Crocker End, about ¹⁄₂ mile east of the village. The 2011 Census recorded a parish population of 727.
context_section_description: The Church of England parish of Saint Bartholomew was originally a chapelry of the adjacent parish of Benson. There is a record of the Empress Matilda giving the benefice of Benson, including chapels at Nettlebed and Warborough, to the Augustinian Abbey at nearby Dorchester, Oxfordshire in about AD 1140.
  The Mediæval church building was replaced in 1845–46 by the present Gothic Revival brick building, designed by a member of the Hakewill family of architects. The only surviving part of the previous church is the lower stages of the brick west tower, which seems to be 18th-century.
  The church has some 20th-century stained glass windows, including two made in 1970 by John Piper and Patrick Reyntiens. One is the chancel east window, in which a central tree of life is flanked by fish on one side and butterflies on the other. The other is the baptistery south window in the south aisle. This shows a tree of life with birds perching in it including an owl, a hawk and a pheasant.
  The tower has a ring of six bells, all cast by Charles and George Mears of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in 1846.
caption: Chancel east window by John Piper and Patrick Reyntiens in St Bartholomew's parish church
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