Description

SU 88 NE
2/13

COOKHAM
CHURCH ROAD (east side)
Cookham Dean
Church of St. John the Baptist

II

Parish Church. 1849 by R.C. Carpenter in an early C14 style. South chapel added c1866. Flint with Bath stone dressings; slate gabled and coped roof. Nave, chancel, south aisle, south porch and bellcote. Plinth, angled and square buttresses. Timber gabled porch with cusping and carved bargeboard. South front: two-light windows with cusped tracery with square heads and labels on aisle. Similar but with two-centred arch on south chapel, with mask and foliage labels. East front: three-light window with reticulated tracery. West front: two-light window with cusped tracery.

Interior: plain, white. Four bay nave, arch braced collar roof. Two bay chancel, similar roof but with thin arched wind braces to side purlins. Four bay arcade to south aisle with alternate round and octagonal columns, moulded capitals and bases. Stained glass window of 1893 in north wall by Kempe.

Listing NGR: SU8713785115

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26411088

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)