Description

PEASEMORE PEASEMORE VILLAGE
SU 47 NE
8/27 Church of St. Barnabas
27.6.72
II

Church. Base of tower c1737, main body c1842, chancel c1866.
Chancel by G. Street. Grey brick with stone dressings, red brick
base to tower and stone spire, plain tiled roofs. Nave, chancel
north porch. Plinth, moulded string at cill on chancel, stepped
buttresses gable parapets, crenellated tower, spire. North
Elevation:- to left:- 2 bay chancel with windows under 2 centred
arched heads with flowing tracery to centre:- nave of 4 bays
with tall 2-light windows under 2 centred arched heads with flowing
and decorated tracery, porch in 3rd bay from left with 2 centred
arched doorway recessed in orders; to right:- tower of 3 stages
with angle buttresses and half octagonal stair turret, 2-light
louvre in top stage with 2-centred arch over; octagonal spire with
gabled louvre in main compass point faces, surmounted by weathercock.
Interior:- plastered; nave:- 4 bays with moulded hammer beam roof
and stone angel corbels; chancel arch:- 2-centred moulded arch on
grouped columns with leaf caps."Chancel:-2 bay timber barrel vault
roof; piscina and sedilia on south wall and 2-centred arch to south
transept enclosing organ, carved stone reredos by Earp; C17
carved timber altar frontal of Descent from Cross, Last Supper,
Adoration of Magi and Resurrection. V.C.H. Berkshire vol.iv.
p.83 B.O.E. Berkshire p.194.

Listing NGR: SU4580177079

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26429237

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Recommended Books

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)