Church of St Michael
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046423
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046423
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, 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 MICHAEL, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Newton Purcell with Shelswell
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 62510 30813
Details
NEWTON PURCELL WITH SHELSWELL CHURCH LANE SP63SW (East side) Newton Purcell 5/66 Church of St. Michael 07/12/66
GV II
Church. C12 origins. Repaired in 1813, restoration of 1875-6 by C.N. Beazley amounting to a rebuilding leaving only the foundations of the original walls. C12 doorway moved from the north to the south entrance. C19 bell-gables vestry and porch. Stucco with limestone quoins. C20-tile roof. Combined nave and chancel. 3-window range. South doorway has C12 zig-zag decoration and a dove and serpents in the tympanum. Late C19, 2- and 3-light lancet windows throughout and a C14 ogee-headed window in south wall of chancel. Interior, C13 piscina and aumbry. C19 fixtures and fittings and a C17 parish chest. C13 incised slab commemorating a heart burial. Marble wall memorials to Gilbert Harrison, merchant d.1790 and to other members of the Harrison family of Shelswell Park. Nave north window has early C19 stained glass in the manner of Eginton. Other C18 wall memorials to Edward and Samuel Trotman. On a stone plinth to left of porch, two C17 limestone effigies from Shelswell Church, which was demolished in 1810. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: 1974, p717 and p753; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol VI, pp266-7)
Listing NGR: SP6251030813
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243659
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1959), 266-267
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 717, 753
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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