Church Of St Barnabas

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