Church of St Mary

Church of St Mary, Church Road, Aldermaston

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1117319
Date first listed:: 14-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: Church of St Mary
Statutory Address:: Church of St Mary, Church Road, Aldermaston

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1117319
Date first listed:: 14-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: Church of St Mary
Statutory Address 1:: Church of St Mary, Church Road, Aldermaston

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 Mary, Church Road, Aldermaston

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

District:: West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Aldermaston
National Grid Reference:: SU 59655 64975

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 03/10/2019

SU 56 SE 6/26 ALDERMASTON CHURCH ROAD (south side) Church of St. Mary

14.4.67

GV I Church. C12 nave extended circa 1210 to form larger chancel, new nave added to west and transeptal chapel added to south; C19 vestry. Restored 1896. Pebbledashed with stone dressings; tiled roofs, shingled splayed foot spire with weathervane. West tower, nave, chancel, transeptal chapel to south and vestry.

West tower: three stages with diagonal buttresses and newel turret. Louvred bell chamber openings on all faces, C14 window with two ogee lights and hoodmould to west with octagonal clock above. C12 re-set west doorway of one order, shafts with chevron ornament, carved doves on capitals, and round arch with cable moulding.

Nave: south side; C15 window with two ogee lights under square head. North side; C14 window with two ogee lights to east and C12 blocked doorway to right, cusped lancet and pair of cusped lancets to west.

Chancel: south side; C19 round arched window to west, C19 window with two ogee lights under segmental head, and round-arched doorway with impost mouldings and keystone to east. East end; diagonal buttresses and triple lancets. North side; two lancets to east with large buttress between; trefoil headed lancet to west and small C15 cinque foiled square headed window above, originally to light rood loft.

Transeptal chapel: cusped lancet to west, C14 window with two ogee lights and hoodmould to south, and cusped lancet with C19 C13-style doorway below to east.

Vestry: lancet to west, two-light window with Y-tracery to south and C19 door with lancet above to east.

Interior: large unmoulded tower arch, two small arced recesses in wall, blind arch to south door with carved head in wall above, wagon roof to nave with carved bosses, and old king post roof to chancel.

Fittings include: C16 pulpit and tester, C16 painted Flemish Triptych, C17 nave wall panelling, hatchments, Charles I coat of arms, C18 chandelier and C19 font.

Wall painting: C14 St. Christopher in south transeptal chapel with C15 canopy to right, vivid C19 paintings in nave and chancel.

Glass: C13 roundels of the Annunciation and the Coronation of the Virgin in north windows.

Monument: large chest tomb in south transeptal chapel to Sir George Forster and his wife Elizabeth Delamare of circa 1530, alabaster with recumbent effigies and small figures under canopies on sides.

Listing NGR: SU5965464976

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 39502
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1923), 390-394
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 61-62
'Murrays Architectural Guide' in Berkshire, (1949), 113

Legal

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