Cold Ash, Berkshire
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 St Mark's parish church |
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 Cold Ash
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| Cold Ash shown within Berkshire | |
| Area | 7.9 km2 (3.1 sq mi) |
| Population | 4,063 (2011 census) |
| • Density | 514/km2 (1,330/sq mi) |
| OS grid reference | SU5169 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Thatcham |
| Postcode district | RG18 |
| Dialling code | 01635 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Royal Berkshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | |
| Website | Cold Ash Parish Council |
Cold Ash is a village and civil parish in West Berkshire centred 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Thatcham and 2.5 miles (4 km) north east of Newbury.
The Church of England parish church of Saint Mark was designed by the architect C.N. Beazley and built in 1864–65. It is a brick Gothic Revival building with a polygonal apsidal chancel. The chancel windows have tracery in a late 13th-century Decorated Gothic style. The chancel windows have stained glass: the east window by Clayton and Bell and the north and south windows by C.E. Kempe.
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.
The Cloisters was built as a Roman Catholic Convent for the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary. The Catholic architect Wilfred C. Mangan of Preston, Lancashire designed the chapel, which was built in 1934–36 and has a tower. It is now part of Downe House School.
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