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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 Church of England has designated additional minsters in the 20th and 21st centuries, by adding an honorific title to existing parish churches. These have included Dewsbury (1994), Sunderland Minster (1998), Preston (2003), Rotherham (2004), [12] Stoke (2005), and Newport (2008). St Andrew's Church, Plymouth became a minster church in late ...
1542 – Reading is granted a royal charter of incorporation permitting the burgesses to elect the mayor. [1] Greyfriars becomes the guildhall. 1548 – King Edward VI grants the lordship of Reading to his uncle, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset and Lord Protector who in 1550 is overthrown for misdemeanors including misappropriating Abbey ...
Reading Nunnery: nuns founded 979 dissolved 1016; granted to Battle, Sussex by William the Conqueror; apparently on the site now occupied by St Mary's Minster Church (restored 1551-1555 with masonry and timbers from the demolished Reading Abbey) [22
Reading Minster (the Minster Church of St Mary the Virgin) is Reading's oldest ecclesiastical foundation, known to have been founded by the 9th century and possibly earlier. [208] Although eclipsed in importance by the later abbey, Reading Minster has regained its importance since the destruction of the abbey.
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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.
The church is on Downshire Square, a tree-lined square in West Reading close to the Bath Road. It is part of the parish of St. Mark and All Saints, which includes St. Mark's Church . The church was built between 1865 and 1874, as a daughter church of the Minster Church of St Mary , to serve the growing population of the Bath Road area.