Church of St. Clement
Church of St. Clement, Church Lane, Ashampstead
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1212118
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St. Clement
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St. Clement, Church Lane, Ashampstead
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1212118
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St. Clement
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St. Clement, Church Lane, Ashampstead
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St. Clement, Church Lane, Ashampstead
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashampstead
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 56418 76793
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16/01/2020
SU 57 NE
3/17
ASHAMPSTEAD
Church Lane
Church of St. Clement
[Formerly listed under (PINFOLD LANE) (West side), CHURCH LANE]
14.4.67
GV
I
Church. Early C13, restored in 1849 and 1894. Rendered with stone dressings, old tile roofs; wavey-edged weatherboarded bell turret on west end of nave with louvred openings on all faces and shingled pyramidal cap with lead finial and weathervane. Nave, Chancel, south porch and north vestry.
Nave, west front: lancet with cill string; south front: chamfered south doorway with hoodmould and boarded door; C19 gabled porch with moulded arch, hoodmould, boarded door, and windows with two trefoiled lights, square heads and returned hoodmoulds on east and west faces. Window to left of porch with two cinquefoiled lights under square head with returned hoodmould; two windows to right of porch with two and three cinquefoiled lights under square heads with returned hoodmoulds, two brick buttreses one between windows and one to right.
North front: one C13 lancet; C19 gabled vestry projecting to right, window to west of two trefoiled lights under square head with hoodmould, identical window to east.
Chancel, south front: blocked C13 arched doorway to left, two C13 lancets to right between two brick and tile buttreses with one set back.
North front: two C13 lancets.
East front: C19 triple lancets with cill strung and impost string carried over lancets as hoodmould.
Interior, nave: medieval roof of four bays with tie beams, arch braced collars, and double purlins with two tiers of windbraces. Extensive C13 wall paintings, on north wall and above chancel beam. Chancel: medieval roof of 3 bays with tie beams, arch braced collars and two tiers of windbraces. Some wall paintings to north. All fittings C19.
Listing NGR: SU5641376791
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 396640
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 70
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1923), 450-451
Murrays Architectural Guide in Berkshire, (1949), 114
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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