Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, LYDALLS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1047918
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, LYDALLS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1047918
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, LYDALLS 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 ALL SAINTS, LYDALLS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Didcot
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 51966 90506
Details
DIDCOT LYDALLS ROAD SU5190 (North side) 11/5 14/06/63 Church of All Saints
GV II*
Church. C12, chancel rebuilt and south aisle added c.1340, C15 alterations, C19 north aisle, vestry, south porch and steeple. Limestone uncoursed rubble with stone dressings; lead roof to nave and south aisle; slate roof to north aisle; old plain-tile roof to chancel; shingle hanging and roof to tower. Aisled 3-by nave, chancel and west tower. C19 open timber-framed porch on stone base, with gabled old plain-tile roof to south aisle centre. Double plank door to 2-centre arched doorway. 3-light window of reticulated tracery with segmental head to right. Paired lancet to left with couchettes to segmental head. 3-light window of reticulated tracery with segmental head to right return of south aisle. Trefoil-topped doorway with 2-centre arched hood with foliate ends to centre of chancel. 2-light plate tracery window to left. 2-light windows of reticulated tracery to right and rear of chancel, 3-light window of reticulated tracery to east end. 3-light window of rectilinear tracery to west end. C19 reticulated tracery windows to north aisle. Broach spire to tower to left which rises from south aisle roof. Reset headstones to wails. Interior: C19 and C20 roofs. C19 fittings to chancel including stone reredos, altar rail, and choir stalls. 2-centred chancel arch with hood-mould. C15 south arcade of 2-centred arches on cluster and octagonal columns. C19 north arcade of 2-centred arches on cluster columns. Tudor-arched doorway to left of chancel arch, to stairs to rood loft. Paired trefoiled lancet opening above head of stairs. Romanesque round stone font on octagonal stepped base. Purbeck marble effigy of mitred abbot with remains of trefoil canopy to head and animal to feet, of c.1290 to south aisle. (V.C.H.: Berkshire, Vol.3, 1923, p.473-475; Buildings of England: Berkshire, 1975, p.127-8).
Listing NGR: SU5196690506
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 248617
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 127-8
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1923), 473-475
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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