Church of St. John the Evangelist

Church of St. John the Evangelist, Church Road

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1136276
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: Church of St. John the Evangelist
Statutory Address:: Church of St. John the Evangelist, Church Road

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Date:: 2001-07-07
Reference:: IOE01/04037/22
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1136276
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: Church of St. John the Evangelist
Statutory Address 1:: Church of St. John the Evangelist, Church Road

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Church of St. John the Evangelist, Church Road

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wokingham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Woodley
National Grid Reference:: SU 76839 73692

Details

SU 77 SE 5/40

WOODLEY CHURCH ROAD (west side) Church of St. John the Evangelist

26.1.67

GV II*

Parish Church. 1873 by H. Woodyer. Flint with Bath stone dressings and tile gabled roof. Four bay nave, chancel, north aisle, south porch in the westernmost bay of the nave with a large two-tier stone bellcote above.

Windows diamond leaded, lancet on north aisle, three-light in nave, two-light stained glass in chancel, all in plate tracery.

Interior: North arcade of circular columns with moulded capitals, tall stone tripartite chancel screen with moulded capitals to slim columns, and delicate low wrought iron screen. Stone octagonal pulpit with base of moulded arches and colonnettes. Stone font with similar base. Arched braced collar rooftrusses on corbel brackets, with side purlins, king posts and wind braces, those in the chancel cusped.

Listing NGR: SU7683973692

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Legacy System number:: 41494
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), 311
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.