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 St. Laurence, Reading İBM 17 Dec 2003 |
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Dedication:St. Laurence, Reading
benefice
Tower Correspondent:
Mrs Gill Carlill, 98 Grovelands Road Reading, RG30 2PD.
Tel: 0118 958 8354. email: Gcarlill@fish.co.uk
Service Ringing: by arrangement
Practice night: Tue 8pm (1,3 and 5)
alternating with St.Mary the Virgin.
Availability and Restrictions
The Bells (12) 23-0-20 further details
Access to ringing chamber: long stone spiral staircase
Points of interest in church
On the South Wall monument to the mathematician, John Blagrave, died 1611,
the author of The Mathematical Jewell. It has 5 regular solid figures
(the Platonic solids) borne by bare-breasted young ladies.
Church facilities:
toilets in church nave; also in The three Bs during opening times.
Travel Details: OS Grid Ref: SU717736
Town car parks (difficult)
Public Transport:
Eating Places:
Local points of interest for non ringers:
Reading Town Hall is in Blagrave Street, named after the mathematician.
The museum with its bowdlerised Victorian copy of the 'Bayeux Tapestry'
and the Tourist Information centre are inside the town Hall.
Page last updated 15 Aug 2005
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