Discover History & Heritage in Reading

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   Church of Our Lady and St Anne

   Address

   2 South View Avenue, Caversham, READING, Berkshire, RG4 5AB

   READING

   Built 1902-21, it includes a shrine chapel, re-designed between 1954-58 to include the external squint on South View Avenue for observance by passers-by. This has a large 500-year old oak statue of Our Lady and Child. The shrine was redecorated in…

   

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   Stonor Park

   Address

   Stonor, HENLEY-ON-THAMES, Oxfordshire, RG9 6HF

   HENLEY-ON-THAMES

   Family home of Hon. William and Lady Ailsa Stonor and the Stonor family for over 800 years with a 13th Century chapel with earlier origins, built on the site of a late neolithic stone circle. The house was built in the late 12th Century and…

   

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   Greyfriars Church

   Address

   Friar Street, READING, Berkshire, RG1 1EH

   READING

   The building of Greyfriars Church was completed in 1311 by Franciscans, followers of St Francis of Assisi who were monks, then called friars, who wore grey, hence the name Greyfriars. It is now a Grade 1 listed building, being the oldest Franciscan…

   

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