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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 club entered the FA Cup until 1884–85, albeit the club scratched in 1882–83 having been given a walkover in round 1, and the club's worst performance came in a 10–1 defeat to the Old Carthusians in 1883, played for the occasion in the grounds of Park House in Reading, owned by Reading F.C. member A.C. Bartholomew.
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.
Reading (/ ˈ r ɛ d ɪ ŋ / ⓘ RED-ing) [2] is a town and borough in Berkshire, England, and the county town of Berkshire.Most of its built-up area lies within the Borough of Reading, although some outer suburbs are parts of neighbouring local authority areas.
Ulm Minster: 5,950 [citation needed] 190,000 2,000 1377–1890 Ulm Germany: Protestant Tallest church in the world [54] York Minster: 5,927 [55] 1230–1472 York United Kingdom: Anglican (Church of England) Largest Gothic cathedral in Northern Europe. Bourges Cathedral: 5,900 [citation needed] 6,200 [citation needed] 1195–1230 Bourges France
The current Rector of St. Giles in Reading is David Harris, a Canadian. [9]The parish sits within the Anglo-Catholic tradition of the Church of England. [10] As it opposes the ordination of women to the priesthood, St Giles is a member of Forward in Faith and receives alternative episcopal oversight from the Bishop of Oswestry.
The present cathedral church at Canterbury is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England. [2] [5] As begun by Alfred the Great in 871 and consolidated under William the Conqueror in 1066, England became a politically unified entity at an earlier date than other European countries. One of the effects was that the units of ...