CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: I
List Entry Number: 1155386
Date first listed: 14-Apr-1967
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
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Location
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
District: West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish: Padworth
National Grid Reference: SU 61329 66158
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
PADWORTH
SU 66 NW
4/8 Church Of St. John
14.4.67 The Baptist
GV I
Church. Circa 1130 with some C16 windows, vestry and porch added in restoration
of 1890. Rendered with stone dressings; tiled roofs, shingled bellcote to
west with 3 louvred ogee lights on each face, clock to south, and pyramidal
tiled roof with weathervane. Romanesque. Nave, apsidal chancel, south porch
and vestry. Nave: one C16 window to north and south with 3 arched lights under
square head; shafted south doorway of one order, capitals carved with foilage
and volutes, moulded arch with chevron and other ornament; shafted north doorway
of one order with carved capitals and moulded arch with chevron ornament. Gabled
south porch with planted timbers and 2-light openings to east; gabled vestry to
west with planted timbers and 3-light mullioned south window. Chancel: C19
north and south windows with 2 round arched lights, C16 south-east window with
2 round arched lights, C19 one light round arched east window. Interior:
vaulted chancel; tall C12 chancel arch with roll moulding, 2 orders and capitals
carved with foilage and grotesques; jamb of earlier window revealed in wall to
south, C19 piscina to south-east. C19 arch braced nave roof. C17 Communion rail,
C17 communion table at west end of nave; other fittings C19. Monuments: tablet
to Christopher Griffith, 1776 by J Wilton, large female figure bending over urn
with portrait medallion; tablet to Mrs Loftus Brightwell, 1711, putti to left
and right, with 2 Ionic columns supporting broken back flat pediment with coat
or arms above. Other C18 and early C19 wall tablets. This is an important
C12 chrch, notable for the lack of later additions. VCH, pp415-416 including
plan; BOE, Berkshire, ppl9O-191.
Listing NGR: SU6132866159
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 39594
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1906), 415-416
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 190-191
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing