Church of St. Frideswide
Church of St. Frideswide, Frilsham, Thatcham
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1213105
- Date first listed:
- 29-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St. Frideswide
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St. Frideswide, Frilsham, Thatcham
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1213105
- Date first listed:
- 29-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St. Frideswide
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St. Frideswide, Frilsham, Thatcham
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. Frideswide, Frilsham, Thatcham
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Frilsham
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 53804 73195
Details
SU 57 SW
5/3
FRILSHAM
BROOKS LANE (west side)
Church of St. Frideswide
II*
Church. C12 with C15 chancel and west tower and porch of circa 1837. Flint, tile and rubble with stone dressings, west tower and porch of red brick with Bath stone dressings; tiled roofs. West tower, nave (including narrower C12 chancel), south porch and chancel.
West tower: two stages with string courses and battlemented parapet with stone coping. Louvred lancet bell chamber openings with returned hoodmoulds on north, south and west faces; clock above opening to north. Studded and panelled arched door to south and lancet to west, both with returned hoodmoulds.
Nave: lancets with returned hoodmoulds flanking tower at west end. South side: south-west door with simple moulded C12 round arch, and boarded door with some old ironwork. Two windows to right with three cusped lights under segmental heads, that to left C19, that to right C15. North side: two re-worked C12 windows to left. C12 doorway to right of one order with shafts, moulded bases, scalloped capitals and impost mouldings. C19 door under segmental arch. R.L.R.P. on stone in gable end to east above chancel.
South porch: brick with plinth, cornice, battlemented parapet with stone coping; four-centered moulded arch with carved trefoils in spandrels and shafts with moulded capitals and bases.
Chancel: one square headed window to north and south with two cusped lights and hoodmoulds; diagonal buttress to south-east. East end with four-centered window of three cusped lights with hoodmould and two small buttresses beneath.
Interior: C17 arch braced double purlin nave roof with tie beams, collars and windbraces; C19 chancel roof with arch and wind braces. C20 west gallery, possibly C12 font, Jacobean Pulpit and reader's desk. C19 Chancel arch with round arch and shafts.
Listing NGR: SU5380473195
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 397624
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 144-145
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924), 72-73
Murrays Architectural Guide in Berkshire, (1949), 126
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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