Church of St Peter
Church of St Peter, Church Road, Caversham
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1303560
- Date first listed:
- 22-Mar-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Peter, Church Road, Caversham
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/13150/30
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1303560
- Date first listed:
- 22-Mar-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Peter, Church Road, Caversham
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 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 38868
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 4 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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