Wycliffe Baptist Church
Wycliffe Baptist Church, Kings Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1155966
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Wycliffe Baptist Church
- Statutory Address:
- Wycliffe Baptist Church, Kings Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1155966
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Wycliffe Baptist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- Wycliffe Baptist Church, Kings Road
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:
- Wycliffe Baptist Church, Kings Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Reading (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 73066 73223
Details
SU 7273
8/504
Kings Road (north side)
Wycliffe Baptist Church
II
Built in 1887 as a daughter house to the King's Road Baptist Chapel (qv). North Italian classicizing-Romanesque in style. Grey brick with red brick corner piers, moulded plinth, strings at first floor level and first floor cill dressings. Central pedimented break above a five light arcade which is over three arch loggia porch. Two light windows in outer bays, to left a pedimented aedicule facing west; to right a four stage tower, possibly intended to have steeple.
Round headed windows. Porch arcade on pink granite columns with scroll caps. Moulded eaves band. Roman tile roof. Lower two storey extension to right (added 1885, foundation stone laid by Walter Palmer). It has a porch in gabled break and is linked to the tower by curved ground floor wall. Single and paired round headed lancets. Two oculi on first floor to left. Moulded brick modillion eaves cornice and gable verges. Ground floor projection with lean-to. A further gable to centre of first floor. Large clerestory lit hall behind with wooden brackets to hipped Roman tile roof.
Listing NGR: SU7306673223
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 38990
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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