Douai Abbey Church
Douai Abbey Church, Upper Woolhampton, Reading, RG7 5TQ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1156252
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Douai Abbey Church
- Statutory Address:
- Douai Abbey Church, Upper Woolhampton, Reading, RG7 5TQ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1156252
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Douai Abbey Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- Douai Abbey Church, Upper Woolhampton, Reading, RG7 5TQ
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:
- Douai Abbey Church, Upper Woolhampton, Reading, RG7 5TQ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Woolhampton
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 57704 68214
Details
SU 56 NE
3/10
WOOLHAMPTON
UPPER WOOLHAMPTON
Douai Abbey Church
GV
II*
Church. 1928-33, by J Arnold Crush. Red brick with Bath stone dressings, string course carried up over windows as hoodmould, plinths and parapets of chequered flint and stone; tiled choir roof, others not visible. Free Curvilinear Gothic style. Choir, aisles, north aisle chapel and Lady chapel with polygonal apse.
Choir: two bays, that to east short. Four-light aisle windows, those to east two-lights; two-light clerestory windows, those to east of one light; clerestory to east with central three-light window flanked by cusped lancets.
Low chapel projecting from western bay to north with two two-light windows. Newel turret to north-east of choir with parapet and lancet openings. Temporary west end
with three lancets and circular window above lean-to porch.
Lady chapel: three bays, three-light windows; east window of four lights.
Interior: ashlar faced and stone vaulted throughout. Choir arcades with moulded bases and capitals, and moulded arches. The church remains unfinished. J. Arnold Crush was a pupil of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. Douai is a Benedictine Abbey.
Listing NGR: SU5770468214
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 39694
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 312
Murrays Architectural Guide in Berkshire, (1949), 156
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 5 February 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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