CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1047650
Date first listed:: 18-Jul-1963
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1047650
Date first listed:: 18-Jul-1963
Date of most recent amendment:: 05-Jun-1985
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, CHURCH STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, CHURCH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Beckley and Stowood
National Grid Reference:: SP5622811273

Details

SP51SE 2/27 18/07/63

BECKLEY AND STOWOOD CHURCH STREET (West side) Beckley Church of the Assumption of The Blessed Virgin Mary (Formerly listed as Church of The Assumption of St. Mary the Virgin)

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Church. C14 and C15, restored 1845. Limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; plain-tile and sheet-metal roofs. Aisled nave, chancel, central tower and south porch. The C14 chancel has 2-light side windows and a 3-light east window, all with Reticulated tracery, and a priest's doorway to south with its medieval door; the steep-pitched roof has a gable parapet. The parapetted south aisle has similar Decorated windows, to west and west of the porch, but to east and east of the porch has C15 windows with 3 lights under 4-centred arches. The C15/early C16 porch has a wide 4-centre arched outer doorway, with ancient double-leaf doors, beneath a small cusped niche; the parapet string has corner heads and a gargoyle. The 4-centre arched C15 south doorway has a richly-moulded rectangular surround with label and has quatrefoils and mouchettes in the spandrels. The door is C13 and has elaborate hinges, The C15 north aisle has 2-light windows with Perpendicular tracery, to north and east, and a blocked north doorway. The nave has square-headed C15 clerestorey windows and a west doorway similar to that on the south, but retains a late C13 west window of 3 lights with Intersecting tracery. The crenellated 3-stage central tower, now flanked by the aisles, shows the roofline of former transepts, and has 2-light arched belfry openings; at the north-east angle is a 2-stage circular stair turret, with a short octagonal spirelet, which may be C13 or earlier. Interior: The chancel has a section of earlier string course on the north wall; its 7-canted medieval roof has coupled rafters with king posts rising to upper collars, The central tower has four C14 arches of 2 chamfered orders dying into single-chamfered responds. The C15 nave has a 2-bay arcade with delicate cruciform piers and a stone missal desk built into the north-east respond; the contemporary roof has moulded tie beams, purlins and wallplates and is braced from moulded posts. C13 wall paintings on the west and south outer wall faces of the tower; C17 paintings on the tower and the west wall of the nave. C14 and C15 stained-glass panels and figures in north aisle and in some tracery lights of chancel windows; chancel north window 1895 by J. Hardman; other C19 glass in chancel, west window of nave, and east and west windows of south aisle. Fittings include a C12 tub font, C15 bench pews in and aisles, a C17 pulpit with arched panels and tester, a medieval chest, and a C17 bier in the porch. Wall monument in chancel to Anne Croke (died 1609) has a brass engraving and inscription in a Classical stone frame beneath an achievement; several plain C18 wall tablets in aisles; early C19 lozenge-shaped floor slabs to members of the Croke family of Studley Priory, (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.V; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, pp. 447-8).

Listing NGR: SP5622811273

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Legacy System number:: 246547
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 447-8
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1957)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.