Church of St. Mark and St. Luke is a Grade I listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1962. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St. Mark and St. Luke
- WRENN ID
- stark-granite-gilt
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1962
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Mark and St. Luke is a church that dates back to the 11th century, with a south porch added in the 16th century and a north transept built in the 19th century, marked by a datestone from 1877. The structure is made of flint with Bath stone dressings, rendered on the west and south sides, and features a tiled roof with gable parapets. The church consists of a nave, chancel, south porch, and north transept.
On the south elevation, there is a large corner buttress to the west and a gabled south porch that has a moulded stone door surround beneath a brick relieving arch. The nave has two semi-circular headed windows, and the chancel also has two semi-circular headed windows. The south door features an elaborately carved Norman doorway with half columns; the left column has a cushion cap and the right has a leaf cap. The jambs and arch are decorated with leaf, chevron, and roll mould ornaments.
The north elevation includes a blocked two-centred arched north doorway and one semi-circular headed window for the nave.
On the west elevation, there are three semi-circular headed windows, with the center window being taller than the others.
Inside, the chancel is divided into two bays with a timber roof, featuring carved bases for roof vaulting on the walls. The vault ribs are set on pilasters with fluted and cushion caps at the center, and there are bulls head and grotesque head corbels at the east end. The vault ribs are adorned with beak head ornament. There is an aumbry in the north wall, and to the south, there is a piscina and a sedilium or easter tomb. The chancel arch is depressed and has recessed arches decorated with ball flower, chevron, and beak head ornaments, with fluted and grotesque capitals on the columns. The font, believed to be Saxon, is a tub with Romanesque style ornamentation, featuring an Ionic colonnade that encompasses 12 figures, a roped top, and a plain leaf base.
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