Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Church Lane, Burghfield
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135772
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St. Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Church Lane, Burghfield
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135772
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St. Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Church Lane, Burghfield
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. Mary the Virgin, Church Lane, Burghfield
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Burghfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 67094 68396
Details
SU 66 NE
4/9
BURGHFIELD
CHURCH LANE (north west side)
Church of St. Mary the Virgin
II
Parish church. 1843 by J.B. Lacey in the Romanesque style, the chancel added in 1892 by Bodley and Garner in the Decorated style. Brick in header bond, stone chancel, stone dressings to doors and windows: steeply pitched slate roof. Wide nave, wide transepts, chancel, and west tower; two entrance porches in the angles between the tower and nave. Four bays of round headed windows with stained glass to nave, two bays with leaded lights to each transept, two-light windows with reticulated tracery to nave. Large stone corbel blocks under eaves to nave. Tower in three stages, the top stage polygonal with a small squat spire on top, stone arcaded opening at bell stage and stone oculi below.
Interior: An C18 wall tablet on the north wall of the north transept, marble with pediment, to Mrs. Mary Robinson who died 1789. A C14 carved wood effigy of Sir Roger de Burfield contained in a glass case in the chancel. Two C15 stone effigies under the tower, believed to be of Neville, Earl of Salisbury and his wife, Alice, both defaced. The font is a large tapering bowl of C12 re-cut C14 in ten-sided form with shallow trefoil-headed panels. Stained glass in east window by Burlison and Grylls.
Listing NGR: SU6709468396
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 39993
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 107
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1906), 403
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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