Cold Ash
| Cold Ash | |
| Berkshire | |
|---|---|
 St Mark's parish church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU5169 |
| Location: | 51°25’26"N, 1°15’50"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 3,623 (2001) |
| Post town: | Thatcham |
| Postcode: | RG18 |
| Dialling code: | 01635 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | West Berkshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Newbury |
| Website: | Cold Ash Parish Council |
Cold Ash is a village in Berkshire about a mile north of Thatcham and 2½ miles northeast of Newbury.
Parish curch
The parish church is St Mark. It was designed by the architect Charles Beazley and built in 1864–65.[1] It is a brick Gothic Revival building with a polygonal apsidal chancel.[1] The chancel windows have tracery in a late 13th-century Decorated Gothic style.[1] The chancel windows have stained glass: the east window by Clayton and Bell and the north and south windows by Charles Eamer Kempe.[1]
History
Downe House School, a girls' boarding school, moved to Cold Ash in 1922 when it outgrew its original premises, Downe House, Charles Darwin's former home near Bromley in Kent. St Peter's, a red brick house built in about 1700, is now part of the school.[2]
The Cloisters was built as a Roman Catholic Convent for the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary.[1] The architect WC Mangan of Preston in Lancashire designed the chapel, which was built in 1934–36 and has a tower.[1] It is now part of Downe House School.
Amenities
Cold Ash has two public houses, the Castle Inn[3] and the Spotted Dog.[4] Cold Ash has a Women's Institute.[5] St Mark's Church of England Primary School[6] has about 150-200 pupils in the 4–12 age range.
The village has a recreation ground with two tennis courts and space for football and cricket. The Acland Memorial Hall[7] is Cold Ash's village hall.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Cold Ash) |
- Piper, Reg (2001). "Cold Ash – A Brief History of the Development of the Village". Cold Ash Parish. Cold Ash Parish Council. http://www.coldash.org.uk/Cold_Ash/The_Parish.html.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Pevsner 1966, p. 117
- ↑ National Heritage List 1220197: Downe House School, St Peters
- ↑ The Castle Inn
- ↑ The Spotted Dog
- ↑ Cold Ash WI
- ↑ Cold Ash St Mark's Primary School
- ↑ The Acland Memorial Hall
- A History of the County of Berkshire, Volume 3 - Victoria County History
- Pevsner, Nikolaus (1966). Berkshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 117.