Church of St Gregory
Church of St Gregory, Welford
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1117225
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Gregory
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Gregory, Welford
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1117225
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Gregory
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Gregory, Welford
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 St Gregory, Welford
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Welford
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 40883 73156
Details
SU 47 NW
12/9
WELFORD
WELFORD
Church of St Gregory
6.4.67
II*
Church. 1852-5 by T. Talbot Bury, the Norman tower taken down and re-built in the late C19. Flint, some squared and knapped and some knapped, Ferricrete, with Bath stone dressings and tiled roof. Tower, nave, aisles, chancel and south porch. Heavy stone moulded plinth, buttresses, moulded string at cill level, gable parapets.
Round tower, tall first stage with one semicircular headed window to north, south and west, short second stage above moulded string changing to octagon at top, with two-light pointed arched louvres with thin engaged columns under pointed arch. Coupled columns at corners of octagon supporting blind arcade and stone spire with two-light gabled louvres at base, clock faces to north and south.
South elevation: tower to left. Four bay south aisle, with south porch to left of two-centred arched doorway under stone coped parapetted gable with central niche and statue, flanked by clasping buttresses with gabled crocketted and finialled caps. Three windows to right. Bays divided by buttresses with an angle buttress to right end. Chancel to right of three bays with plain lancet windows and blocked doorway with caernarvon-arched head.
Interior: four bay nave and aisles, arcade of two centred arches springing off compound piers with foliage capitals. Double purlin, arch braced collar roof with curved wind-braces to nave, scissor trusses with cusped bracing to aisles. Three bay chancel with stone vaulted roof, carved leaf bosses and ribs springing off leaf capitals on marble colonnettes. Pointed arched arcading forming sedilia around walls and stone access stair to pulpit built into north side of chancel arch.
Fittings: reset brasses on South wall of chancel, depict John Younge and his family and a cleric. west wall of north aisle has monument to the Reverend Thomas Shirley and family 1753, a rectangular tablet with shouldered architrave and cambered top surmounted by obelisk with draped lamp in coloured marbles. In the tower are five marble tablets, one with portrait bust, to the Mundy family, all of late C17 date. On west wall of south aisle is a re-set monument in carved stone and marble of kneeling female figure in niche flanked by Ionic columns supporting frieze and aedicule. Beneath this is an inscribed tablet with kneeling figures of 12 girls and 7 boys, Latin inscription to Anna, daughter of William Rede, wife of Adrian Fortescue and Thomas Parry, died in 1585 in her 75th year; C11 arcaded font on C20 base.
Listing NGR: SU4088373156
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 39786
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 5 February 2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html
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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