Description

SU 7878
16/23

WARGRAVE
HIGH STREET
(east side)
Wargrave Chapel

G.V.
II

Congregational Church now Wargrave Chapel. 1835 in a neo-Gothic
style. Painted roughcast with plinth and small buttresses on side
walls, stone coped gables to slate roof. Windows leaded and with
pointed arches. 5 bay nave and embraced west bell tower, chancel
on east under pent roof. Entrance front: 3 bays, bell tower in centre.
Entrance approached by 3 steps, flanked on either side by 2-light leaded
lights with pointed arches and crudely cusped heads. Tower in 3 stages
with string mould, full height engaged hexagonal columns one on each
corner with moulded cornice and castellated tops, battlemented parapet,
2-light louvred openings on 3 sides of bell chamber; 2-light leaded
casement slightly recessed below. Pair of hinged wood planked entrance
doors with 3-centred heads under similar arch. C20 entrance and parish
room extension on left. V.C.H. Vol.III, p.192. B.O.E. (Berkshire) p.258.

Listing NGR: SU7862478704

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26411635

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas