Church of St James's

Church of St James's, Forbury Road, Reading

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1113480
Date first listed:: 22-Mar-1957
List Entry Name:: Church of St James's
Statutory Address:: Church of St James's, Forbury Road, Reading

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1113480
Date first listed:: 22-Mar-1957
List Entry Name:: Church of St James's
Statutory Address 1:: Church of St James's, Forbury Road, Reading

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Church of St James's, Forbury Road, Reading

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Reading (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SU 71992 73629

Details

SU 7173 NE 1/2 SU 7273 7/2

READING FORBURY ROAD (south side) Church of St James's 22.3.57.

GV II

Roman Catholic 1837-40 by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin. Untypical Norman style. Much altered 1925 by W.C. Mangan (south aisle and apse ambulatory), and 1962 by Bingham Towner (north aisle). Flint with Bath stone ashlar dressings. Roman tile roof. Coped gables with footstones. Belfry to west. Round headed clerestory with continuous impost string. Five bays. Dividing and corner buttresses. West front has oculus at top, large round headed window with flanking blind arcade. Projecting porch with centre break and angled corners, round headed doorway with two orders, of chevron. Three apses to east, centre with ambulatory. Three bay south aisle with six bay double arcade inside. North-east pier has fragment of beaded C12 carving.

INTERIOR: wooden roof, vaulted apse. C12 interlacing on re-used stone from Abbey is now the font. Pugin's first church design. The Norman style probably dictated by proximity of Abbey remains.

Listing NGR: SU7199273629

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Legacy System:: LBS

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British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 4 February 2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.