Chapel at Water Eaton Manor House
CHAPEL AT WATER EATON MANOR HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1046563
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel at Water Eaton Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL AT WATER EATON MANOR HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1046563
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel at Water Eaton Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL AT WATER EATON MANOR HOUSE
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:
- CHAPEL AT WATER EATON MANOR HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Gosford and Water Eaton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 51567 12104
Details
GOSFORD AND WATER EATON WATER EATON SP51SW 6/46 Chapel at Water Eaton Manor 07/12/66 House (Formerly listed as Manor House, chapel) GV I Domestic chapel. c.1600, restored 1884 by W. Wilkinson and H.W. Moore, and c.1905 by G.F. Bodley. Coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings; Stonesfield-slate roof. Nave and chancel. Perpendicular style. Walls have chamfered plinth, stepped angle buttresses and rise to gable parapets. Chancel east window has 5 cinquefoiled lights within a 4-centre-arched head; south window is similar but of 3 lights, and there are 2 more 3-light windows in the south wall of the nave plus a fourth facing west. South doorway has a 3-centred head with recessed spandrels below a label mould. The west gable has a small bellcote. Interior: nave and chancel have wagon roofs of heavy coupled rafters with arched bracing rising from moulded wall plates. Chancel arch is in Renaissance style with a chamfered semi-circular arch and moulded capitals continued as a cornice. Contemporary fittings include a complete set of bench pews with heavy fleur-de-lys poppyheads, a hexagonal pulpit with carved arched panels, plus sounding board and crested canopy, a fine chancel screen with an arcade of black-painted Ionic columns supporting a strapwork frieze (the lower panelling probably a restoration), and a simple communion table with turned legs. Choir stalls in similar style are C19, as is the rood added by Bodley. Early C20 stained glass in east window. A remarkably complete survival of a rare type. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.826; H. Avray Tipping "Water Eaton Manor, Oxfordshire"; Country Life, Nov. 9th 1907, pp.666-74; V.C.H: Oxfordshire, Vol.12 (to be published).).
Listing NGR: SP5156612104
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243283
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1990)
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 826
Country Life in Country Life, (1907), 666-74
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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