CHAPEL AT READING SCHOOL

CHAPEL AT READING SCHOOL, ERLEIGH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1321946
Date first listed:: 19-Mar-1975
List Entry Name:: CHAPEL AT READING SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: CHAPEL AT READING SCHOOL, ERLEIGH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1321946
Date first listed:: 19-Mar-1975
List Entry Name:: CHAPEL AT READING SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: CHAPEL AT READING SCHOOL, ERLEIGH ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CHAPEL AT READING SCHOOL, ERLEIGH ROAD

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 72667 72700

Details

ERLEIGH ROAD 1. 5128 Chapel at Reading School SU 7272 9/478 19.3.75. II 2. 1870s, probably by Alfred Waterhouse who designed the school. Plain Early English style. English bond red brick with blue brick bands and chequering especially to eaves which have small chevron decoration. Tiled roof with fishscale bands. 8 bays, with dividing buttresses, 5 bays of paired lancets, small gabled porch to south-west and a single lancet to east bay. Stepped triple lancet to east. Small 2 light ambled extension to south (vestry) with small belfry and tall octagonal chimney. Interior : plain brick, arch braced collar beam trusses on corbels, long benches to sides.

Listing NGR: SU7266772700

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 38923
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.