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1900
  Victorian

1883 St Luke's Earley Rd

  1881 Wycliffe Baptist Kings Road
  1880 St Andrews Presbyterian London Rd
  1879 St Bartholomew's London Road
  1878 Unitarian London Road
  1873 Wesley Chapel Queens Road
  1869 St Laurence's restored
  1864 St Stephen's Orts Road
  1864 All Saints Downshire Square
  1863 GreyFriars Church Friar Street
1850 1861 Christchurch
  1846 Trinity Congregational Queens Rd
  1840 St Mary's Castle St altered
  1840 St James Catholic Church
  Georgian 1837 St John's Watlington Street
  1835 Quaker Meeting House
  1826 Holy Trinity Oxford Road
1800
1812 First Catholic Church
1750 1798 St Mary's Castle Street
1700  
1650 Stuart 1655 First Quaker Meeting
1600

Baptists

1633 Congregationalist

1550 Tudor 1551 St Mary's altered
1500 1539 Abbey dissolved
  1485 Reading School opened in Abbey
1450 1453 Parliament meets at the Abbey
1400 Middle Ages
1350 1359 Wedding of John of Gaunt in Abbey
1300
1250
1200 1233 Grey Friars arrive
  1191 St Giles
1150 1164 Official opening of the Abbey
   
  1136 Burial King Henry I in Abbey
  1121 St Laurence's founded
1100 1121 Founding of Reading Abbey
1050 Saxons and Vikings  
1000 c1000 St Mary's
950 978 Nunnery founded
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500 c530 Founding of Reading
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