St Mary's Church is a
redundant Anglican
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of th ...
church in the hamlet of
Lambourn Woodlands in the
English county of
Berkshire
Berkshire ( ; in the 17th century sometimes spelt phonetically as Barkeshire; abbreviated Berks.) is a historic county in South East England. One of the home counties, Berkshire was recognised by Queen Elizabeth II as the Royal County of Berk ...
. It is recorded in the
National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II
listed building,
and is under the care of the
Churches Conservation Trust.
The church stands on the south side of the B4000 road, some south of
Lambourn.
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History
The church was built in 1852 and designed by the architect Thomas Talbot Bury, a pupil of Augustus Charles Pugin, in Gothic Revival
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...
style.[ It was declared redundant on 1 June 1990, and was ]vested
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in the Churches Conservation Trust on 24 July 1991.
Architecture
St Mary's is constructed in flint with stone dressings, and has slate
Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism. It is the finest grained foliated metamorphic rock. ...
roofs. Its plan is simple, consisting of a three-bay
A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a Gulf (geography), gulf, sea, sound (geography), sound, or bight (geogra ...
nave, a north aisle and a chancel. To the north of the west end is an octagonal spire. There are three two-light windows in Decorated style, and a three-light east window.[
Inside the church is a three-bay arcade carried on octagonal ]piers Piers may refer to:
* Pier, a raised structure over a body of water
* Pier (architecture), an architectural support
* Piers (name), a given name and surname (including lists of people with the name)
* Piers baronets, two titles, in the baronetages ...
. The chancel contains a sedilia and a piscina.[ The ]reredos
A reredos ( , , ) is a large altarpiece, a screen, or decoration placed behind the altar in a church. It often includes religious images.
The term ''reredos'' may also be used for similar structures, if elaborate, in secular architecture, for ex ...
was carved by John Bacon, whose son was the first parish priest.[
]
See also
* List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in South East England
References
External links
Photographs of the exterior
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Grade II listed churches in Berkshire
Church of England church buildings in Berkshire
Churches completed in 1852
Gothic Revival church buildings in England
Gothic Revival architecture in Berkshire
Churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust
19th-century Church of England church buildings
1852 establishments in England
St Mary's Church, Lambourn Woodlands