Church of St Mary

Church of St Mary, Church Street

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1319130
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: Church of St Mary
Statutory Address:: Church of St Mary, Church Street

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Date:: 1999-08-31
Reference:: IOE01/00386/20
Rights:: © Mrs A.M. Craggill. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1319130
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: Church of St Mary
Statutory Address 1:: Church of St Mary, Church Street

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, 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.