Church of St Peter

Church of St Peter, Church Road, Caversham

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1303560
Date first listed:
22-Mar-1957
Statutory Address:
Church of St Peter, Church Road, Caversham
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1303560
Date first listed:
22-Mar-1957
Statutory Address 1:
Church of St Peter, Church Road, Caversham

Location

Statutory Address:
Church of St Peter, Church Road, Caversham

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 70889 74892

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20 February 2023 to reformat the text to current standards

SU 7074
11/265

Caversham
CHURCH ROAD (south side)
Church of St Peter

22.5.57.

II*
Church of England. Of various dates from C12, principally C15 and high Victorian. Pleasant flint built parish church with Bath stone dressings and old tile roof. West tower (1878) of three stages with hipped roof screened by high corbelled parapet, by Morris and Stallwood. Four gables to east (chancel and aisles of equal height, vestry to north slightly set back). Nothing remains of the Norman church except for the south doorway with crude chevron and a reset window now in the Vestry.

Five bay nave with three bay chancel (lengthened 1924-25 by Sir Ninian Comper). C15 north aisle with good perpendicular east chapel which has angel busts on capital; square frame three light windows. South aisle added 1878 (by Morris and Stallwood) three bays with three light east window with intersecting glazing.

Interior: nave has kingpost and wind brace roof. 1674 Loveday memorial in south aisle. Montague vault in north-east corner. Norman Purbeck marble font.

Listing NGR: SU7088974892

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38868
Legacy System:
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British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 4 February 2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html

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