CHURCH OF ST PAUL
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II*
List Entry Number: 1303384
Date first listed: 12-Nov-1951
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST PAUL, READING ROAD
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Location
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST PAUL, READING ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
District: Wokingham (Unitary Authority)
Parish: Wokingham
National Grid Reference: SU 80524 68983
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History
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Details
WOKINGHAM READING ROAD
SU 8068 NE
(South west side)
17/39 Church of St. Paul
12.11.51
G.V. II*
Parish church. 1862-4 by Henry Woodyer in the Decorated style; aisles added
1874. Squared rubble with Bath stone dressings. Tiled roofs, separately
over nave and chancel; lead roofs over aisles and vestry. Nave with
clerestoreys, north and south aisles, chancel, vestry; north chapel and
organ chamber, south chapel, a north west porch and tower with spire.
Plinth, moulded strings and eaves course; decorated parapets of circular
motifs to tower, and blind arcading to aisles. Coped gables. Windows:
3-lights, 4 on the north and 6 on the south aisles; all with 2 stage
buttresses between. 3-light with reticulated tracery on the east end of
nave and a 4-light on the west end with. intersecting tracery. Six,
5-light clerestorey windows on each side, Tower:- 4 stages, moulded
strings to each, angled buttresses of 4 stages; pinnacles with crockets;
broached spire with weathervane on top. C13 style plate traceried windows.
Interior:-5 bay nave. Moulded arched and scissor braced roof, with tracery
between spandrels; intermediate smaller arch braced collars between ; butt
purlins. North and south arcades with quatrefoil columns and thin shafts
in the diagonals; leaf capitals. The clerestoreys have a series of rere-
arches on detached shafts. The chancel is 3 bays; with moulded arch braced
collars, moulded and decorated butt purlins, and double arched windbraces.
On the south wall of the chancel are 4 low quatrefoil clerestorey windows,
below these on the right is a 2 bay arcade separating the south chapel:
a door to the vestry on the left of this with a pointed arch decorated with
gilded foliage. An elaborately carved stone reredos, depicting the last
supper and the crucifixion. The chancel has a fine fresco and a carved
oak screen below. The font has 8 lobes, the bowl is in the art nouveau
style, decorated with water-lilies and inter-twined stalk; and has an
elaborate carved wooden cover. Stained glass by Hardman. The church
was given to the town by John Walter of Bear Wood. V.C.H. Vol.lll p.226.
B.O.E. (Berkshire) p.308.
Listing NGR: SU8052468983
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 41713
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1923), 226
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 308
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