Editing Tilehurst (section)

== Places of worship ==

[[File:St Michaels Church Tilehurst.jpg|right|thumb|The Church of St Michael]]

Tilehurst has a number of religious buildings covering numerous denominations: 
* The [[Church of St Michael, Tilehurst|Church of St Michael]], situated centrally in the [[parish]], is a brick church with a square [[bell tower|tower]].<ref name="Manor of Tilehurst 5" /> Parts of the building date from the 13th century,<ref name="Ford St Michaels">{{cite web|last=Ford|first=David Nash|title=Tilehurst St. Michael's Church|url=http://www.berkshirehistory.com/churches/tilehurst.html|work=Royal Berkshire History|publisher=Nash Ford Publishing|access-date=30 July 2012}}</ref> replacing an earlier church thought to have been built in 1189.<ref name="Ford St Michaels" /> Sir [[Peter Vanlore]] is buried in the church's [[Lady chapel]].<ref name="Manor of Tilehurst 7">{{cite book|last=Blagrave|first=J R|title=The Manor of Tylehurst|year=1834|location=Southcote|page=7|isbn=978-1-01-954529-4 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=c8wHAAAAQAAJ}}</ref> 
* The [[Anglican church]] of [[St Catherine of Siena]] was built in the [[Little Heath, Berkshire|Little Heath]] area of Tilehurst from 1962 to 1964.<ref name="St Catherine of Siena">{{cite web|title=A Little History|url=http://homepage.ntlworld.com/stuart.poore/Churches/StCatherines/St_C_History_Fr.htm|publisher=St Catherine of Siena|access-date=30 July 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019194632/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/stuart.poore/Churches/StCatherines/St_C_History_Fr.htm|archive-date=19 October 2013}}</ref> 
* A [[Methodist church]] is near the village centre,<ref name="Tilehurst Methodist Church">{{cite web|title=Tilehurst Methodist Church|url=http://www.tilehurstmethodist.org.uk/|publisher=Tilehurst Methodist Church|access-date=30 July 2012}}</ref> and a [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|Latter-day Saints]] church opened in Tilehurst in the 1970s.<ref name="BFHS" /> 
* The [[Roman Catholic church]] of [[St Joseph]] was built in Park Lane from 1955 to 1956.<ref name="St Joseph's Tilehurst">{{cite web|title=A Brief History of St Joseph's|url=http://www.st-josephs-tilehurst.org.uk/|publisher=St Joseph's Tilehurst|access-date=30 July 2012}}</ref> 
* Tilehurst also has a [[United Reformed Church]]<ref name="URC Group Reading">{{cite web|title=Our Church|url=http://urcreading.moonfruit.com/#/our-church/4565298822|publisher=URC Group Reading|access-date=30 July 2012}}</ref> (built on the site of an early 19th-century [[Congregational Chapel]]<ref name="BFHS" />), a Bethel [[United Church]],<ref name="Reading Churches">{{cite web|title=Reading Churches|url=http://www.xnmedia.co.uk/index.php/churches/reading-churches|publisher=X N Media|access-date=30 July 2012}}</ref> and Anglican churches dedicated to [[St George]] and [[St Mary Magdalen]].<ref name="Reading Churches" /> 

Tilehurst does not have any [[synagogue]]s, [[mosque]]s or [[gurdwara]]s; the nearest are in [[West Reading, Berkshire|West Reading]],<ref name="Reading Hebrew Congregation">{{cite web|title=Synagogue|url=http://www.rhc.org.uk/rhc/Synagogue.html|publisher=Reading Hebrew Congregation|access-date=30 July 2012}}</ref> central Reading,<ref name="BAGR">{{cite web|title=BAGR Profile|url=http://www.readingmosque.com/about.php|publisher=Bangladesh Association Greater Reading|access-date=30 July 2012}}</ref> and [[East Reading]] respectively.<ref name="BBC gurdwara">{{cite news|title=Reading Sikh community plans new Gurdwara|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-14458306|access-date=30 July 2012|newspaper=BBC Berkshire|date=9 August 2011}}</ref>