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Reading Minster, or the Minster Church of St Mary the Virgin, is the oldest ecclesiastical foundation in the town of Reading, Berkshire, England. Although eclipsed in importance by the later Reading Abbey , Reading Minster regained its status after the destruction of the Abbey and is now an Anglican parish church .
The principal feature of the church is a three-stage tower, built in 1458, which closes the vista to the north of Reading's old Market Place. The interior of the church contains several interesting items, including a memorial to John Blagrave, the 16th-century English mathematician, and a 1522 font used for the christening of Archbishop Laud.
Reading Museum (run by the Reading Museum Service) is a museum of the history of the town of Reading, in the English county of Berkshire, and the surrounding area.It is accommodated within Reading Town Hall, and contains galleries describing the history of Reading and its related industries, a gallery of artefacts discovered during the excavations of Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester Roman Town ...
The Reading Museum [182] opened in 1883 in the town's municipal buildings. [50] It contains galleries relating to the history of Reading and to the excavations of Calleva Atrebatum, [183] together with a full-size bowdlerised replica of the Bayeux Tapestry, an art collection, and galleries relating to Huntley and Palmers. [184]
15 December: Reading station is connected to the Elizabeth Line network under the name TfL Rail. 2019 –19 November: Olivia Graham is the first female consecrated Suffragan Bishop of Reading. 2020 23 March: Reading enters the national lockdown cycle caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom.
St Mary's Church and Butts are where the town of Reading originally grew from. [1] To the south, St Mary's Butts reaches a cross-roads, where it meets Gun Street (the western continuation of Minster Street) to the east, Castle Street to the west, and Bridge Street to the south.
Berkshire shown within England Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) There are approximately 372,905 listed buildings in England and 2.5% of these are Grade I. This page is a list of these buildings in the county of Berkshire, ordered by building name within place name within district ...
Reading Abbey is a large, ruined abbey in the centre of the town of Reading, in the English county of Berkshire.It was founded by Henry I in 1121 "for the salvation of my soul, and the souls of King William, my father, and of King William, my brother, and Queen Maud, my wife, and all my ancestors and successors."