St Mary's Church, Castle Street, Reading

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St Mary's Church, Castle Street, Reading

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St Mary's Church, Castle Street, Reading, Grade II* listed church in Reading, England

St Mary's Church features a prominent hexastyle portico with Corinthian columns and a stucco-rendered frontage on Castle Street in Reading.

The church emerged in 1798 when congregation members of St Giles' Church established a new chapel on the site of Reading's former prison.

The interior contains a late 18th-century gallery supported by marbled Doric ground floor columns and Ionic gallery columns with a coved central ceiling.

The church maintains its position in Reading's center at coordinates 51.453775, -0.974811, near the Minster Church of St Mary the Virgin.

The structure houses an organ from 1870, originally crafted by Vowles of Bristol and transferred to St Mary's Church in 1987.

Location: Reading

Architectural style: Neoclassical architecture

GPS coordinates: 51.45378,-0.97481

Latest update: March 5, 2025 03:59

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