The church of St Clement was at the extreme north-west angle of the city, and nothing but a fragment of the west wall remains. It consisted of a nave and chancel with a wide aisle and wooden tower at the west end, which was put up after the Civil War in place of the stone tower which was then destroyed. It was pulled down in 1823, when a new church (where you are now) was built on the other side of the river in the middle of the parish. This building is of grey sandstone in an intended reproduction of 12thcentury style; it consists of chancel, nave, and western embattled tower with pinnacles, and vestry below the chancel.
There is one bell by Thomas Mears of London, 1822, cast from the three old bells. The plate consists of an Elizabethan cup with floral band ornament of 1571, a second cup, 1748, and a large paten of the same date.
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