Church of St. Mark and St. Luke
Church of St. Mark and St. Luke, Avington, Kintbury
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1319539
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St. Mark and St. Luke
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St. Mark and St. Luke, Avington, Kintbury
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1319539
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St. Mark and St. Luke
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St. Mark and St. Luke, Avington, Kintbury
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. Mark and St. Luke, Avington, Kintbury
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kintbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 37276 67964
Details
SU 36 NE
12/11
KINTBURY
AVINGTON
Church of St. Mark and St. Luke
6.2.62
I
Church. C11, with C16 south porch and C19 north transept, datestone 1877. Flint with Bath stone dressings, rendered on west and south, tiled roof with gable parapets. Nave, chancel, south porch and north transept.
South elevation: large corner buttress to west, gabled south porch with moulded stone door surround under brick relieving arch. Two semi-circular headed windows to nave and two to chancel. South door with elaborately carved Norman doorway with half columns, the left with cushion cap and right with leaf cap. The jambs and arch have leaf, chevron and roll mould ornaments.
North elevation: Blocked two centred arched north doorway and one semi-circular headed window to nave.
West elevation: three semi-circular headed windows, the centre being taller.
Interior: two bay chancel with timber roof, but divided on walls by carved bases for roof vaulting, vault ribs set on pilasters with fluted and cushion caps at centre. Bulls head corbel and grotesque head corbel at east end. Vault ribs have beak head ornament. Aumbry in north wall, piscina and sediluim or easter tomb to south. Depressed chancel arch with recessed arches of ball flower, chevron and beak head ornaments, fluted and grotesque capitals to columns. Font said to be Saxon, tub with Romanesque style ornament of Ionic colonade encompassing 12 figures, roped top and plain leaf base.
Listing NGR: SU3727667962
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 39714
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 75
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1906), 160
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 5 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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