Arborfield
| Arborfield | |
 St Bartholomew's parish church |
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  Arborfield Arborfield shown within Berkshire | |
| OS grid reference | SU7567 |
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| Civil parish | Arborfield and Newland |
| Unitary authority | Wokingham |
| Ceremonial county | Berkshire |
| Region | South East |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Reading |
| Postcode district | RG2 |
| Dialling code | 0118 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Royal Berkshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | Wokingham |
| Website | Arborfield Village |
Arborfield is a village in Berkshire about 4.5 miles (7 km) south-east of Reading, about 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Wokingham, and about 0.6 miles (1 km) west of the sister village of Arborfield Cross Arborfield and Arborfield Cross have become collectively known as Arborfield, and there are no signs marking the boundary between the two.
The village is on the A327 road linking Reading with Farnborough.
Arborfield is in the civil parish of Arborfield and Newland, which is in the district of Wokingham unitary authority.
Churches
The present Church of England parish church of Saint Bartholomew is a Gothic Revival building designed by J Picton and built in 1863.[1]
The new building replaces an older St Bartholomew's church that had been built in the 13th century and altered probably early in the 18th century.[2] When the new church was consecrated the roof of the old one was removed and later layers of plaster stripped from the interior walls, revealing Medieval wall paintings of "figure subjects and geometrical and masonry patterns" that "covered the walls".[3] These have now been lost and the church ruins have greatly deteriorated.[1]
The army garrison (below) has its own garrison church, a 20th-century building dedicated to Saint Eligius.
Army garrison
Arborfield may be best known for the adjoining British Army base of Arborfield Garrison, the headquarters and training base of the Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers of the British Army, although the garrison actually is about 1 mile (1.6 km) the other side of Arborfield Cross and is mostly in the civil parish of Barkham. In the garrison is the Army Cadet Force detachment 11 Platoon Arborfield.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Pevsner 1966, p. 66.
- ↑ "Remains of old church at NGR SU 7495 6802". National Heritage List for England. English Heritage. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
- ↑ Ditchfield & Page 1923, pp. 200–203.
Sources
- Ditchfield, P.H.; Page, W.H., eds. (1923). A History of the County of Berkshire, Volume 3. Victoria County History. pp. 200–203.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus (1960). Buckinghamshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 66. ISBN 0-14-071019-1.
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