Church of St Barnabas
CHURCH OF ST BARNABAS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135893
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Barnabas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST BARNABAS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135893
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Barnabas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST BARNABAS
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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 BARNABAS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Peasemore
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 45801 77079
Details
PEASEMORE PEASEMORE VILLAGE SU 47 NE 8/27 Church of St. Barnabas 27.6.72 II
Church. Base of tower c1737, main body c1842, chancel c1866. Chancel by G. Street. Grey brick with stone dressings, red brick base to tower and stone spire, plain tiled roofs. Nave, chancel north porch. Plinth, moulded string at cill on chancel, stepped buttresses gable parapets, crenellated tower, spire. North Elevation:- to left:- 2 bay chancel with windows under 2 centred arched heads with flowing tracery to centre:- nave of 4 bays with tall 2-light windows under 2 centred arched heads with flowing and decorated tracery, porch in 3rd bay from left with 2 centred arched doorway recessed in orders; to right:- tower of 3 stages with angle buttresses and half octagonal stair turret, 2-light louvre in top stage with 2-centred arch over; octagonal spire with gabled louvre in main compass point faces, surmounted by weathercock. Interior:- plastered; nave:- 4 bays with moulded hammer beam roof and stone angel corbels; chancel arch:- 2-centred moulded arch on grouped columns with leaf caps."Chancel:-2 bay timber barrel vault roof; piscina and sedilia on south wall and 2-centred arch to south transept enclosing organ, carved stone reredos by Earp; C17 carved timber altar frontal of Descent from Cross, Last Supper, Adoration of Magi and Resurrection. V.C.H. Berkshire vol.iv. p.83 B.O.E. Berkshire p.194.
Listing NGR: SU4580177079
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 39964
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 194
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1906), 83
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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