Church of St Giles
CHURCH OF ST GILES, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046559
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Giles
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GILES, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046559
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Giles
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST GILES, 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 GILES, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wendlebury
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 55852 19702
Details
WENDLEBURY CHURCH LANE SP5lNE (North side) 3/138 Church of St. Giles 07/12/66 - II Church. C13, largely rebuilt 1762; altered and restored 1902 by J.O. Scott. Coursed squared limestone rubble and random rubble with ashlar dressings; plain-tile roof. Nave, chancel, north transept and south-west porch. C18 chancel has shallow clasping buttresses rising from a plinth; east and south windows have Y-tracery. Nave has 2 similar windows to south and a larger window of 1902 in place of the former south transept. Most windows have medieval moulded jambs with later heads and tracery. C20 porch shelters a C15 doorway with carved spandrels. North wall has 3 arched blind windows. West wall has a blocked archway formerly leading to a tower. North transept, in random rubble, has pairs of angle buttresses and a 2-light late Cl3 east window with plate tracery; it is mostly C13 but has 3 late medieval single-light windows in its gable wall. Interior: roofs of 1902; C13 arched tomb recess in transept; C18 communion rail with turned balusters; C17 ledgers and C18 wall tablets; medieval font. (V.C.H,: 0xfordshire, Vol.VI, pp.344-5; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.832).
Listing NGR: SP5585219702
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243379
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1959), 344-5
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 832
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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