Wokingham Baptist Church
Wokingham Baptist Church, Milton Road, Wokingham
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1319151
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Wokingham Baptist Church
- Statutory Address:
- Wokingham Baptist Church, Milton Road, Wokingham
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1319151
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Wokingham Baptist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- Wokingham Baptist Church, Milton Road, Wokingham
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:
- Wokingham Baptist Church, Milton Road, Wokingham
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 80999 68797
Details
SU 8068 NE & SU 8168 NW
17/1 & 18/1
WOKINGHAM
MILTON ROAD (east side)
Wokingham Baptist Church
30.11.84
G.V.
II
Baptist Church. c1860 by Poulton and Woodman of Reading, in an eclectic Victorian style. Banded brick, Portland stone dressings, slate roof. L-plan with apsidal north east end and gabled to road; lower meeting hall adjoining on right. Part one storey, part two storeys, with mezzanine. Symmetrical front with five bay central, projecting, pedimented gable rising above one bay flanking sides. Brick plinth, stone impost band, moulded brick and stone string over door arches, continuous stone cill band at upper window level, stone plat band at upper window arch level; moulded stone and brick architraves, dentilled brick and moulded stone pediment with antifixae and acroterion; keyed oculus in tympanum pierced with four circular openings.
Centre gable has five single-light round headed windows with thin square and circular pattern glazing, under round stone arches with keystones. Below these are three large pairs of boarded entry doors with similar pattern glazed overlights under round brick and stone voussoir arches. Flanking sides are of similar design but with single light windows on ground floor with similar glazing and arches in place of doors. On the right hand and set well back is a one storey meeting hall in the same style with pedimented, dentilled eaves, three bays of windows at upper level with single planked entrance door below, with flat stone carved lintel and overlight with circular glazing.
Interior: five bay main hall with pilasters commencing from lower window level, plain string and moulded heads, with plain ceiling cornice; coffered ceiling. Apsidal sanctuary with moulded ribbed arch on moulded springers with pairs of carved brackets with leaf decoration. In front of the arch is a wooden panelled pulpit with an ornamental carved front, approached on either side by a small flight of curved wooden stairs with plain handrails, newels with moulded heads and spiked tops. At the south west end there is a panelled gallery at mezzanine level, part cantilevered with carved wooden brackets closely spaced, and part supported on five slim iron columns with acanthus leaf heads. At this level there is an organ in a panelled case with exposed gilded pipes.
Listing NGR: SU8099968797
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 41698
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
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.
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