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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   Silchester Roman City walls and Amphitheatre

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   Mortimer West End, Silchester, READING, Berkshire, RG7 2HP

   Silchester, READING

   Silchester, 12 miles south of Reading, has its origins as Calleva, a centre of the Iron Age Atrebates tribe from the late 1st century BC. After the Roman conquest of AD 43 it became the large and important town of Calleva Atrebatum. Unlike most…

   

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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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