Church of Saint Luke and Attached School
CHURCH OF SAINT LUKE AND ATTACHED SCHOOL, ERLEIGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113622
- Date first listed:
- 29-Nov-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Luke and Attached School
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF SAINT LUKE AND ATTACHED SCHOOL, ERLEIGH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113622
- Date first listed:
- 29-Nov-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Luke and Attached School
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF SAINT LUKE AND ATTACHED SCHOOL, ERLEIGH ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF SAINT LUKE AND ATTACHED SCHOOL, ERLEIGH ROAD
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 72978 72842
Details
The following buildings shall be added to the list:-
READING ERLEIGH ROAD SU 7272 (north side) 9/600 Church of St Luke and attached school GV II Church and attached school. 1882 by J P St Aubyn. Red brick in Flemish bond with white brick bands and stone dressings. Plain tile roof with strips of white tiles at angles. 5-bay nave with lean-to side aisles continuing across west end as porch and choir vestry; lower 2-bay chancel with 7-sided east end, gabled southern bell vestry (treated as transept) and south-east vestry with polygonal east end. School attached to north side of chancel. Offset plinth, buttresses with off- sets. Pointed-arched board doors with decorative iron hinges in roll-moulded surrounds. Lancet windows, paired to nave, with hoodmoulds to apse. Modillion eaves cornices. Decorative ridge tiles. Nave: west end has stepped tripled lancets; roll-moulded ashlar coping, east gable having gabled bellcote with cross finial. Chancel: bell vestry has 5 small lancets below stepped tripled lancets. South-east vestry has door, small paired lancets, and 5 more to canted east end above which rises ploygonal roof with cross finial. Eaves stack to main chancel roof. East side of apse has datestone below white brick cross, school: 2 storeys; 2 + 3 bays, on cant. Bay 1, linking school to church, has 3 lancets on each floor. Bay 2 is entrance bay, having door flanked by small lancets below 2 strings, and to upper floor paired lancets with oculus over and gable with bud finial. To right are 7 lancets, and on 1st floor 5 set in gables breaking eaves and arranged 1,1,3. Interior of church: pointed-arched arcades of red brick on stone columns; red brick surrounds to openings, otherwise brown brick throughout. 1914-18 war memorial in recess in nave west wall, behind font. Arch-braced roof trusses with 3 tiers of arched wind braces between 2 sets of purlins. In chancel: encaustic tile roof; sedilia; highly decorative stone reredos; altar rail on twisted and scroll-bracketed balusters; and good stained glass.
Listing NGR: SU7297872842
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 39280
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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