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Latitude: 51.4571 / 51°27'25"N
Longitude: -0.9652 / 0°57'54"W
OS Eastings: 471992
OS Northings: 173629
OS Grid: SU719736
Mapcode National: GBR QNF.83
Mapcode Global: VHDWT.7M2W
Plus Code: 9C3XF24M+RW
Entry Name: Church of St James's
Listing Date: 22 March 1957
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1113480
English Heritage Legacy ID: 38939
Also known as: Church Of St James'
ID on this website: 101113480
Location: Reading, Berkshire, RG1
County: Reading
Electoral Ward/Division: Abbey
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Reading
Traditional County: Berkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Berkshire
Church of England Parish: Reading St Mary the Virgin
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
Tagged with: Church building
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READING
FORBURY ROAD (south side)
Church of St James's
22.3.57.
GV
II
Roman Catholic 1837-40 by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin. Untypical Norman style. Much altered 1925 by W.C. Mangan (south aisle and apse ambulatory), and 1962 by Bingham Towner (north aisle). Flint with Bath stone ashlar dressings. Roman tile roof. Coped gables with footstones. Belfry to west. Round headed clerestory with continuous impost string. Five bays. Dividing and corner buttresses. West front has oculus at top, large round headed window with flanking blind arcade. Projecting porch with centre break and angled corners, round headed doorway with two orders, of chevron. Three apses to east, centre with ambulatory. Three bay south aisle with six bay double arcade inside. North-east pier has fragment of beaded C12 carving.
INTERIOR: wooden roof, vaulted apse. C12 interlacing on re-used stone from Abbey is now the font. Pugin's first church design. The Norman style probably dictated by proximity of Abbey remains.
Listing NGR: SU7199273629
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