Church of St Mary and St Edburga
CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST EDBURGA, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1046404
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary and St Edburga
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST EDBURGA, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1046404
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary and St Edburga
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST EDBURGA, CHURCH LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST EDBURGA, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stratton Audley
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 60858 26036
Details
STRATTON AUDLEY CHURCH LANE SP6026 (West side) 21/119 Church of St. Mary and St. 07/12/66 Edburga GV I
Church. C14 and C15. Restoration of 1861 by Roger Smith. Coursed limestone rubble. Chancel has a slate roof with stone coped gable, the other roofs not visible. Aisled nave, chancel, west tower, north porch. 4-window range on north. Chancel has a 3-light Perpendicular east window. 2-light Perpendicular windows to north and south have square heads, hood moulds and label stops. Diagonal buttresses. Stone parapet. North aisle has a 3-light east window with intersecting tracery; two 4-light Perpendicular windows, one restored and a lancet to right of porch. Crenellated stone parapet with gargoyles. Perpendicular stone porch has a wide moulded and chamfered archway. Bench seats. Decorated stone 4-centred arched north door has moulded and chamfered jambs. Crenellated parapet with finials. Diagonal buttresses with gargoyles. West tower of 4 stages. Pointed arched west doorway. 2-light Perpendicular window to first and bell-stages, the latter with louvres. Elsewhere lancets. Angle buttresses. Crenellated parapet with finials. South aisle has 2 entrances one with a pointed arched head, the other to right with a reused C12 doorway. Plank doors. 2-light Decorated windows to left. Two 4-light Perpendicular windows to right. Stone parapet with gargoyles. Nave has three, 2-light Perpendicular clerestory windows. C15 chancel roof has cusped struts and open tracery between the beams and braces. Nave and aisles have restored C19 roof incorporating earlier timbers. 3 bay north and south arcades. The north arcade has clustered Early English piers. The south arcade appears similar but recut rather than rebuilt in the C14. Jacobean pulpit. Medieval octagonal font. Medieval parish chest. South chapel has a Baroque monument to Sir John Burlase, d.1688. Elaborate alabaster memorial on grand scale (BOE). A reclining figure in periwig and Roman armour flanked by twisted columns and mourning women. Above and below are cherubs, drapery, swags, garlands and a cartouche on a broken segmental pediment. Alabaster cartouche memorial to Baldwin Borlase, d.1678. Strapwork surround with drapery and cherubs. Stained glass: in the east window of the north aisle, fragments of C14 glass including the arms of Ficuves of Segrave and a frontal head of Christ. Grotesque lions head of C15 in south chancel windows. Early C14 shield of Clare and family and foliage fragments in west window of south aisle. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: 1974, pp794-5; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol VI, pp332-3)
Listing NGR: SP6085626034
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243712
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1959), 332-3
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 1974
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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