Church of St Bartholomew
Church of St Bartholomew, Church Lane, Arborfield
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135983
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Bartholomew
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Bartholomew, Church Lane, Arborfield
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135983
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Bartholomew
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Bartholomew, Church Lane, Arborfield
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 Bartholomew, Church Lane, Arborfield
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wokingham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Arborfield and Newland
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 75797 67815
Details
SU 76 NE
9/16
ARBORFIELD AND NEWLAND
CHURCH LANE (north side)
Church of St. Bartholomew
26.1.67
II
Parish church. 1863 by J.A. Picton in Early Decorated style to replace earlier church now ruined and listed separately (8/3). Flint with Bath stone dressings, fishscale tiled roof with decorative ridge tiles. Five-bay nave, aspidal chancel, west tower and broached spire, gabled porch entry on south at west end. Buttressed walls, diagonal buttressed to chancel and tower; two-light reticulated traceried windows. Tower in three stages, three-light traceried window on west front, two-light similar windows on second stage and two-light openings with boarded infill at bell-stage.
Interior: contains some fittings and monuments from old church; C18 turned baluster altar rails, and wooden vase shaped font. Glass: Head of Aaron, 1744, by John Rowell of Reading in head of window south single light window in nave, second bay from west end, remaining stained glass in chancel and four nave windows is C19.
Monuments: in north aisle to Sir William Standen died 1639, and his wife Mary Backhouse of Swallowfield. Two recumbent alabaster effigies on a black marble altar top with a small daughter at their feet, leaning on a stall and holding a cartouche of arms. The south side has four Doric columns supporting top with panels between, the outer with a coat of arms, the centre with inscription. On west wall to Edwardus Standen, 1750; an inscription panel flanked by fluted pilasters supporting a cornice broken forward over pilasters, flanking urns and central cartouche of arms. A small brass to Thomas Howard, 1643 above two incised slate tablets; one to the wife of Rev. H. Hodgekinson 1804; the other to the Reverend Henry Hodgekinson, 1839.
Listing NGR: SU7579767815
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 41415
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 66
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1906), 202
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 04/02/2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html
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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