Church of St Laurence
CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE, B4100, Banbury Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1046533
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Laurence
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE, B4100, Banbury Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1046533
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Laurence
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE, B4100, Banbury Road
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 LAURENCE, B4100, Banbury Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Caversfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 58063 25202
Details
SP52NE CAVERSFIELD A41
(East side)
2/32 Church of St. Laurence
07/12/66
- II*
Church. C10/C11, late C12 and C13, restored and partly rebuilt 1874 by Henry
Woodyer. Coursed and random limestone rubble with ashlar dressings;
Stonesfield-slate and concrete plain-tile roofs. Chancel, aisled nave and west
tower. C13 chancel has a pair of lancets in the east wall and, to south, a
further lancet plus a 2-light Decorated window and a square-headed C15 window;
vestry to north is C19 and includes a 3-light Decorated-style window below a
gable. Rebuilt aisles, in coursed rubble, have small lancets but, to north, a
short gabled projection contains a re-used C12 doorway of 2 orders with engaged
shafts, an inner roll, and an outer band of undercut chevrons. The pre-Conquest
base of the 3-stage tower has small windows to north and south with external
splays, other windows and all quoins have been renewed and the roof has rebuilt
gables facing east and west. Interior: chancel has deep splays to the lancets, a
small aumbry, a trefoiled piscina, and a restored archway to the north; chancel
arch has C19 responds; 2-bay, nave arcades have Transitional round piers with
corner spurs and knob-volute capitals (partly restored), above which are
elaborate C13 arches with multiple-roll moulding and dog-tooth ornament; C19
tower arch; all roofs C19 with arch-braced collar trusses and curved windbraces.
Monuments include several brasses and fragments, mostly removed from their
casements, the elaborately-panelled C15 tomb chest of John Langston (died 1487),
some C17 ledgers, and a group of C18 and C19 wall tablets below the tower. C12
font has arcaded sides. The early-C13 bell below the tower is the oldest
inscribed bell in England
(Buildings of England: 0xfordshire, pp.523/4.
Listing NGR: SP5806325202
This List Entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 6 June 2017
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243417
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 523-4
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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