CHURCH OF ST PETER
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1118126
Date first listed: 26-Jan-1967
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH ROAD
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Location
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
District: Wokingham (Unitary Authority)
Parish: Earley
National Grid Reference: SU 74534 72154
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
EARLEY CHURCH ROAD (east side)
SU 77W
4/1 Church of St. Peter
26.1.67 II
Parish Church. c1844 by J. Turner in Early English style, aisles and
chancel added 1882-3. Grey vitreous brick with stone dressings, slate
gabled and coped roofs. Nave, north and south aisles, chancel, north
transept with organ chamber and vestry, south transept with Lady Chapel,
embraced north west tower, south west porch, diagonal buttresses to
east wall of nave. Brick plinth with stone capping, moulded stone string
course under windows and carried up over porch as a hoodmould. 3 gabled
dormers with 2-light trefoiled windows on each side of nave forming
clerestoreys; 2-light plate traceried windows in aisles, 3-light
geometrical tracery on east window to chancel and west windows to nave
and south aisle. Tower:- 3 stages, moulded stone string at each stage,
angled buttresses reaching second stage; moulded stone cornice, balustraded
parapet, crocketted pinnacles at each corner; clock on 4 faces. Bulls
eye window in second stage, single light pointed arched openings with
louvres in third stage. Entrance doors under 2-centred arch with shafted
jambs with moulded base and leaf heads. Interior:-5-bay nave with plain
thin arch braced collar roof. North and south arcades with 2-centred
arches, plain columns with moulded heads and capitals with a crocket in
each corner. Carved stone reredos; frescoes by I. Pace (1905) stone
pulpit with cable and diaper mouldings, fleuron and dogtooth ornament,
and carved effigys of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Carved stone font
of bowl and stem. Stained glass in east chancel window and west windows
to nave and aisle. VCH Vol.III p.222. B.O.E. (Berkshire) p.202.
Listing NGR: SU7453472154
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 41434
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1906), 222
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 202
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing