Wargrave Chapel
WARGRAVE CHAPEL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118172
- Date first listed:
- 23-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Wargrave Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- WARGRAVE CHAPEL, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118172
- Date first listed:
- 23-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Wargrave Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- WARGRAVE CHAPEL, HIGH STREET
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:
- WARGRAVE CHAPEL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wokingham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wargrave
- National Grid Reference:
- SU7862478704
Details
SU 7878
16/23
WARGRAVE
HIGH STREET
(east side)
Wargrave Chapel
G.V.
II
Congregational Church now Wargrave Chapel. 1835 in a neo-Gothic
style. Painted roughcast with plinth and small buttresses on side
walls, stone coped gables to slate roof. Windows leaded and with
pointed arches. 5 bay nave and embraced west bell tower, chancel
on east under pent roof. Entrance front: 3 bays, bell tower in centre.
Entrance approached by 3 steps, flanked on either side by 2-light leaded
lights with pointed arches and crudely cusped heads. Tower in 3 stages
with string mould, full height engaged hexagonal columns one on each
corner with moulded cornice and castellated tops, battlemented parapet,
2-light louvred openings on 3 sides of bell chamber; 2-light leaded
casement slightly recessed below. Pair of hinged wood planked entrance
doors with 3-centred heads under similar arch. C20 entrance and parish
room extension on left. V.C.H. Vol.III, p.192. B.O.E. (Berkshire) p.258.
Listing NGR: SU7862478704
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 41341
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 258
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1906), 192
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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