Church of St Mary
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1319130
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Mary, Church Street
Map
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Mary, Church Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wokingham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Twyford
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 78853 75887
Details
SU 77 NE
2/42
TWYFORD
CHURCH STREET (south side)
Church of St Mary
26.1.67
GV
II
Church. 1846 by Benjamin Ferrey in an Early English style, north aisle added 1883, tower added 1908-10 by S. Stallwood. Flint with Bath stone dressings, buttressed walls, plate tracery windows. Coped gables to tiled roof. Five bay nave, north and south aisles square tower on north west, gabled entrance porch on south opposite middle bay.
Tower in three stages, stone string courses, cornice and plain parapet, small pyramidal tiled roof. Three-light windows in top stage on all sides, coupled with stone mullions and heavily moulded pointed heads; other windows plain narrow slits. Small stone bellcote at east end of nave, central on ridge. Plain interior with arcades of alternate octagonal and round columns with moulded capitals, and round arches. Simple arch braced roof with king posts and curved windbraces to purlins. Stained glass in two lancets in south aisle by Willement 1847.
Listing NGR: SU7885375887
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 41383
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 243
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 04/02/2020 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.
End of official listing