CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1117257
Date first listed:: 06-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1117257
Date first listed:: 06-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS

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 NICHOLAS

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

District:: West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wasing
National Grid Reference:: SU5759964271

Details

SJ 56 SE 6/17 6.4.67

WASING WASING PARK Church Of St.Nicholas

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Church. C13, C15, with C18 refacing and additions, including west porch dated 1761 west window of 1826, and south transept dated 1839. Restored in 1875. Roughcast with stone dressings, tiled roofs, C18 dormer on north side of nave; weatherboarded bellcote centrally on nave with louvred openings on all faces, pyramidal tile roof and weathervane. Nave, west porch, south transept, chancel and vestry. West porch: gabled with coped parapet and doorway with moulded semi-circular arch, impost blocks, and keystone in square head. Nave: west end has semi-circular arched doorway with door of probably 1875 blank semi-circular arched window in gable above with architrave, impost blocks and keystone. South side has 2 semi-circular arched windows to west with architraves, impost blocks and keystones, and one window to east with 2 ogee lights under a segmental head. North side has 2 arched windows as south, to west; to east a C15 window with 2 cusped ogee lights under a segmental head, and an early C16 window with 3 cusped lights under a square head. South transept: C20 door to west with moulded surround and flat hood, large semi-circular arch to south with dated keystone, smaller but similar window to east with architrave, impost blocks and keystone. Chancel: 2 bays, south side has two 2-light windows with cusped heads, that to right restored early C14, that to left C19. East end has triple shafted lancets with hood moulds, probably of 1875. Early C13 vestry and single lancet of 1875 to north. Interior: nave has old tie beams; moulded plaster decoration around windows probably of 1875, C19 font, Cl7 octagonal pulpit; Flemish and German C16 glass, some of 1649, and Moses probably of 1835. Chancel has moulded arch of 1875 with granite columns foliated capitals and hood mould with caved stops; C13 lancet with toothed rear arch, leading to vestry. V.C.H. Vo1.4. pp.115-116. B.O.E.Berkshire. p.259.

Listing NGR: SU5759964271

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Legacy System number:: 39660
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924), 115-116
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 259

Legal

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