Newbury,
Berkshire
London Road, Oxford Street and
nearby
Click photos to enlarge.
Notes in italics from Berkshire by Nikolaus Pevsner
(1966)
Yale University Press, New Haven and London. |
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St Joseph and the Sacred Heart
(R.C.), London Road. The old, small, featureless red brick church of 1864
stands by the side of the new, large, inappropriately Early Christian or
Byzantine or Italian Romanesque, equally red church with its separate high
campanile. Only the top of the campanile goes a kind of free Renaissance.
The church has a semicircular porch with green marble columns ... The
church is of 1923-8 by W.C. Mangan.
An impressive structure despite Pevsner's purist views. |
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London Road No.40 has a flat
Gothic three-bay front with battlements. The doorway has an ogee arch and
thin tripartite shafts, the windows are straight-headed. ... At the top of
Broadway (where London Road meets Oxford Street)
is the Clock Tower, with a colonnaded base like a market cross. It dates
from 1929.
Thames Court, 20-22 The Broadway, behind the clock tower, looks 17th
century but with much renovation. Most, but not all, of the brickwork
looks well-renovated whilst the window pediments look old. Pevsner makes
no mention of the house. |
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Methodist Church, Northbrook
Street. 1837-8. Stone-built, in the lancet style (i.e.
Early English of the 13th century). |
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Oxford
Square, Oxford Street |
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No. 27, Oxford Street, once
more Early Georgian, five bays, segment-headed windows, but round-arched
ground-floor windows and mid-window, and a little further on, the High
House, Late Georgian, of three storeys. Opposite is No. 2 Bath Road, a
very fine house of five bays, blue and red, with strong angle pilasters, a
three-bay pediment, and again segment-headed windows. The house has a date
1720 on the roof. The porch with Roman Doric columns and a pediment is
later. |
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Market
Place and Wharf Street
West Mills
Newtown
Road Area
St Nicolas Church
St John's Church |
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Map
of Newbury |
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