Church of St. Mary

Church of St. Mary, New Road, Greenham, Thatcham, RG19 8RZ

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1291027
Date first listed:: 06-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: Church of St. Mary
Statutory Address:: Church of St. Mary, New Road, Greenham, Thatcham, RG19 8RZ

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1291027
Date first listed:: 06-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: Church of St. Mary
Statutory Address 1:: Church of St. Mary, New Road, Greenham, Thatcham, RG19 8RZ

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. Mary, New Road, Greenham, Thatcham, RG19 8RZ

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

District:: West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Greenham
National Grid Reference:: SU 48598 65711

Details

SU 46NE 7/31

GREENHAM NEW ROAD (north-east side) Church of St. Mary

6.4.67

II*

Church. Nave and chancel of 1875-6, north aisle of 1888 and baptistery of 1895. H. Woodyer. Early English style. Flint with Bath stone dressings and tiled roofs. Gabled bellcote on ridge to west with two openings and weathervane. Nave, south porch, north aisle, western baptistery, chancel and vestry.

Nave: Gabled south porch with double chamfered arch and three paired lancets to east. West end with two tall lancets and one above in gable. Baptistery below with six lancets to west and parapet.

Chancel: five lancets to south and triple lancets at east end.

North aisle: five bays with paired lancets. Gabled and half hipped vestry to north-east.

Interior: Nave: five bay north arcade with marble columns. Roof with painted and stencilled decoration. Chancel arch of two orders with hood mould and stops. Chancel: Triple shafted lancet to east with moulded capitals and bases; sedile and piscina to south. Painted and stencilled decoration on walls and roof added after the completion of the north aisle in 1588. Baptistery to west with two arches. Contemporary fittings include reredos, altar rails, pulpit and font, c1618 Dutch glass depicting The Tree of Jesse. This church is notable for the completeness of its fittings and internal decoration.

Listing NGR: SU4859865711

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 394103
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1923), 325
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 149
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.